Monday, January 18, 2010

Penguins................

While many people think of penguins as comical birds who look like they've been decked out in tuxedos, the truth is they're among the strongest and most resilient creatures in the animal kingdom.

i just finished watching March Of The Penguins that makes me realized how precious our life is. This penguins never give up until their kids grow older, and independent.

1stly, before the male "makes love" with the female, each year, the emperor penguins of Antarctica travel through the most punishing environment on Earth to their nesting grounds, and after the females lay their eggs, the males are left behind to guard and hatch the precious eggs, which they cradle at all times on top of their feet, while their mates walk 70 miles back to the sea to fatten themselves with fish for themselves and their young. Subjected to subzero temperatures and the terrible trials of the polar winter, they face great dangers.

After two months during which the males eat nothing, the eggs begin to hatch. The chicks can not survive for long on their fathers' limited food reserves. If their mothers are late returning from the ocean with food, the newly-hatched young will die.

Once the families are reunited, the roles reverse, the mothers remaining with their new young while their mates head, exhausted and starved, for the sea, and food. As the weather grows warmer and the ice floes crack and melt, the adults march many hundreds of miles over some of the most treacherous territory on Earth, until the chicks are ready to take their first faltering dive into the deep blue waters of the Antarctic.






***** i rated 5 out of 5. Highly recommended. i think you can appreciate your life more after you watch it. believe me. Be a stronger person. ^^

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