Unique images were given by National Geographic which published a video showing hundreds of penguins walking towards the edge of the terrifying cliff and making their first dive into the sea.
Impressive video
These baby penguins are taking the plunge! 🐧@NatGeoTV is releasing this footage of baby penguins cliff-diving for the first time as part of the amazing Earth Month content found on @DisneyPlus. @morgannorwood has more. pic.twitter.com/DUQ2jRBqo7
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As seen in the stunning footage, they are tentatively approaching the edge when one brave chick suddenly leaps and, after flapping its helpless wings as it falls, lands in the water with a splash. The clip shows the penguin seconds later swimming to safety.
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Encouraged, a few other chicks make the jump. Then a few more before dozens of birds paddle out to sea for the first time.
The video was shot by award-winning National Geographic cinematographer Bertie Gregory, who spent two freezing months following the flock of 10,000 emperor penguins on the Antarctic Peninsula when he captured the chicks’ unprecedented behavior on camera, he told “Good Morning America.”
“It’s called pterygium, when they take their first dive. They usually jump from the sea ice, which is 1 or 2 meters high. We were noticing that these trains of chicks were going through a different spot,” he told the nytimes.
“So I took off the drone, flew it over there to see what was going on, and realized they were piling up on the edge of a huge 50-foot ice cliff,” he continued.
“One by one they started jumping off this 50 meter frozen cliff to take their first swim in the Southern Ocean,” he noted.
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