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Review: March Of The Penguins
I was expecting something more cutesy and geared towards little kids, but that’s certainly not what I got. “March Of The Penguins” is a pretty serious documentary, and it really highlights the difficult life that these animals (Emperor Penguins) lead.
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They live at the bottom of the Earth, in the ice and snow and constant freezing cold of the Antarctic. Once each year, all of those who are old enough to breed “march” from where they normally feed to one spot, where every emperor penguin was born. There they find mates (these penguins are monogamous for one year, but pick different mates each year), breed, and the females lay an egg. After she lays the egg, however, she passes it to the male, who keeps it on his feet under a blubbery flap on his stomach while the female marches many miles back to the feeding grounds, where she eats for the first time in months.
When she returns several months later, she first meets her newborn chick, assuming it and its father survived the harshness of the winter. Then the males give the chicks back to their mothers, and they migrate back to the feeding grounds to eat, also for the first time in many months, while the mothers feed the young by regurgitating food they stored while they were gone.
The penguins do this migration all year, several times a year, depending on how much food is needed and whether they’re male or female. It never stops.
Not only was this a great movie, but it made the point that this species was one that could easily be made extinct or endangered without even actually saying so.
If all of them group together in one massive area like that in order to breed and birth, then what happens if global warming screws up the arctic and they can’t migrate? Or alot of the snow and ice melts and screws up the ecosystem in one of their home areas? Or if we, for some reason, develop in that area one day and therefore screw up their trek?
Any major change in their ecosystem could destroy that entire species.
Also, the babies are cute.
