March of the Penguins

March of the Penguins

ASIN: B000BI5KV0

Starring: Morgan Freeman's Voice and 6,000 Emperor Penguins

Director: Luc Jacquet



If you're an animal lover, you'll love this documentary.



The March of the Penguins is a beautiful story about the life of an
emperor penguin, which is truly an amazing creature. The emperor
penguin lives on the coldest continent in the world, the Antarctica,
and faces many brutal environmental conditions that not only take the
lives of the emperor penguins, but their offspring as well.



The film starts with emperor penguins jumping out of the ocean and
marching, single file, towards their breeding ground—which just so
happens to be a seventy miles away—on the thickest part of the ice.
Once they arrive at their breeding ground, they find a mate and begin
a courting ritual that leads them to giving birth to a single, large
egg.



After giving birth to the egg, the female emperor penguin has to
transfer the egg to the male without touching the ice and as fast as
possible because if the cold weather touches the egg for too long,
the baby will die and the egg will crack. Once the egg is
successfully transferred to the male emperor penguin where he keeps
the egg warm and safe for two entire months, the female returns to
the ocean to feed her starving stomach. Once she fills her belly, she
returns to the breeding ground, just in time for the eggs to hatch.
Once the baby emperor penguins are old enough to travel, they return
to the ocean and learn basic survival skills.



There are some sad parts in the film, where emperor penguins get
behind in the march to the breeding ground and die, where eggs aren't
transferred successfully and we watch as they freeze and die, where
hatched emperor penguins die for several unknown reasons, and where
the mommy penguins get attacked when they return to the ocean to
feed. Then there are the harsh living conditions that can take the
life of an emperor penguin in a moment's notice.



This film truly captivates the life of an emperor penguin, but it
does it in such a way that you feel as though you are watching, and
listening to, a love story. The storyline is not only informative and
educational, but the film moves at a good rate, which makes it far
more interesting than most documentaries which seem to be nothing
more than long, dragged out scientific thesis papers put to film.


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