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January 03, 2007
I watched March of the Penguins last night. Despite the Disney-like musical score it is one the finest nature film I have watched in terms of its grasp of the activities of the emperor penguins and the landscape photography. Surpsingly, in the US it is a controversial> film.
The documentary depicts the yearly journeys of the emperor penguins of Antarctica in autumn, in which all the penguins of breeding age (five years old and over) leave the ocean, their normal habitat, to walk inland to their ancestral breeding grounds.
Sean Leahy
One of the DVD's extra's---Of Penguins and Men--explored the impact of climate change on the yearly journey of the emperor penguins --the melting of the iceshelf creates giant icebergs from the iceshelf that then crashed into the land near one of the colonies, creating impassible terrain and wipping the colony out.
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