AMAZING
ANIMALS
10 NAT GEO KIDS^ • DECEMBER 2019 | JANUARY 2020
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Mac. Robertson Land,
Antarctica
Lights, camera, squawk-tion!
When a worker left a video
camera filming on the ice, two
emperor penguins decided it
was their turn to be movie
stars. One penguin waddled
up to the camera and kicked
it over so it faced the sky.
Then the penguin stared
into the lens as another bird
shuffled into the frame. The
two flaunted their feathers,
presented close-ups of their
beaks and eyes, then ended
with a head-shaking finale.
“Emperor penguins know
their colony grounds very well,
and they’re curious about any-
thing that wasn’t there before,”
says Barbara Wienecke, a senior
research scientist with the
Australian Antarctic Division.
And what was up with the funny
shaking? Wienecke says it was
probably done to clear salt
water out of their nostrils.
These penguins definitely
weren’t camera shy!
—Elizabeth Hilfrank“Selfies”
Hey,
You’re
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shot.It IS a
supercute
selfIe.