Getting ready to depart
What will happen at the end of March? In a few days, the scenery here will be greatly changed: the ocean that originally stretched for more than ten kilometers will become a huge ice skating rink, and the icebergs floating on the sea will be frozen firmly by the ice, and the whole environment will be frozen. It became dangerous and fragile, and there was a crackling noise like gunshots everywhere, and the echoing echoes amplified the sound several times!
The emperor penguins climbed out of the water one by one, gathered on the ice again, and glided slowly on their stomachs on the ground. Some of them stood up straight, as if they were discussing with each other, ready to make a big decision. They looked around at the surrounding ice walls, and then stared at the ray of light exposed in the clouds, as if there was a natural avenue in front of them that disappeared into the silver-white world. The emperor penguins set off, and they walked forward intently, as if they were going to participate in a sports competition, testing their patience, physical strength and persistence day after day.
The bickering and fighting
slowly, a pair of partners emerged in the penguin group, which looked inseparable.
However, some female penguins will walk around anxiously, looking for the few remaining male penguins. In fact, every year during the breeding season, there will always be some terrible scenes. It is because of this reason that the number of male penguins is insufficient, causing some female penguins to attack their already paired partners! Then, there will be a big mess.
Countless mouths joined the battle, and the short wings kept attacking back and forth. But it didn't take long for things to calm down again, and the intruder left to try his luck elsewhere. The love songs that sounded all over the place combined into a loud and noisy noise, which really made people wonder how the newlyweds found each other.
In addition to their magical sense of direction, this is the second secret of emperor penguins: they will remember their partner's song firmly and accurately distinguish it among thousands of penguins. Even in a group of up to 6,000 penguins, they can't beat them!
After attracting each other to mate, it is mating. The mating happens surprisingly fast, and they look very interesting when it is difficult to maintain balance.
Then, between April and May, on this desolate icefield where the wind is blowing, the future parents will have no food to eat, but will survive on love and fresh white snow.
Egg Passing The process of passing eggs between
female and male penguins is very delicate and difficult. Because the ground is uneven, even though it is only a short distance away, their precious eggs may still be off-track, and the eggs will crack or break. Also, the frozen ground only takes a few seconds to destroy the eggs. And those eggs that fail to pass can only end up leaving sad gray-yellow traces on the snow.
This very risky egg transfer project will start the day after the egg is laid. The male penguin will stand in front of the female penguin, get close to her and touch her, back off, and repeat the same action. Then they begin to dance and sing loudly, as if trying to harmonize their movements, while their necks sway gracefully in a sign of inner hesitation.
Suddenly, the female penguin stepped back slightly, letting the egg roll onto the ice... At this time, as long as there is a little unevenness or a slight tilt on the ground, everything is over... Fortunately, male penguins are usually smart enough to use their mouths to guide them. the direction of the egg.
It carefully pushes the egg onto its feet, and then covers it with the underside of its belly for protection, just like the female penguin.
Mommy is back
Finally, Mommy Penguin is back! It appeared at the end of the horizon, surrounded by other mother penguins, also stuffed. As soon as it approached the tortoise-shaped group of male penguins (the formation was a little looser now), it immediately began to sing the song it had sung over and over again before it set off.
It started singing hoarsely, and then waited. No one came to recognize it. Did papa penguin break the egg? Couldn't it be tempted to hunt for food and starve or freeze the baby penguin? It sang again, then stopped and listened: still no movement. There were calls of other penguins all around, mother penguins were looking for father penguins, and some couples had been reunited and were looking at their babies lovingly.
Finally, mother penguin also found her husband! But some penguins were not so lucky. The storm caused many unfortunate eggs to slide to the ground; some penguin babies died because they were too weak; and some penguins were starved for four months. to the sea, but they may never get there because they are so weak.
When the mother penguin finds the father penguin, the first thing to do is to feed their babies. It regurgitated a bit of fish and slid into the mouth of the little grey ball resting on Papa's feet. Then, this cute little gray ball will move from Dad's feet to Mom's feet.
The journey is just as dangerous as when it's still inside the egg: in fact, the little penguin will die quickly if exposed to the cold air for too long. At this time, the penguin parents will start to dance again, so that the movements of each other's bodies are coordinated, so that the penguin baby can move without difficulty.
Comedians
Finally, baby penguins start to enjoy being with their mates. They huddled together and felt really warm. It's waiting for the signal from its mother to call it to eat: it has long since learned to recognize her mother's special singing voice.
Sometimes, its little penguin companions, because they are too hungry or too greedy, will be the first to rush out and grab something to eat when they hear the call of the mother penguin. It clearly knows that it is not the sound of its own mother, and will try to imitate the mother's cry, pretending to be its baby...
But the mother penguin will not be deceived by it so easily, it will take this gluttony The ghost is driven back to the original team, and when it is called again, its real baby will appear impatiently.
The grown-up penguins will roam in the penguin colony, forming a small team, supervised and guided by the adult penguins.
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The film presents the incredible breeding cycle of Antarctic emperor penguins. The breeding process of emperor penguins was originally very dramatic, severe weather, endless threats, and many difficulties followed them like fate. However, they persevere in their mission, which makes their existence even more deeply admirable.
This touching story is appropriately presented through the perfect combination of various departments. The photography team went deep into Antarctica for more than a year, shooting in difficult environments for a long time every day, so as to capture and unreservedly the amazing perseverance and courage of emperor penguins to fight against nature in order to prolong their lives in the face of threats. Be wonderfully presented.
This film, shot in the worst environment in the world, is the first big-screen film with a cute emperor penguin as its theme. It deeply depicts family love and the courage to continue life. The incubation process is very dramatic. The film features Antarctica, which is pure but unpretentious. The brutal polar scenery, and the beautiful and lovely but stoic and brave emperor penguins, the visual effects are magnificent and shocking, and the magnificent scenery is all over the film. The narration simulates the penguin parents and children making the whole film as exciting as a drama, and the music is composed by the newly awarded French music star Emilie Simon.
This is an Acura to life.
When I was watching this film, there were probably no less than a dozen times of exclamations and exaggerated surprised facial expressions. Because of this film, I realized that emperor penguins must work hard and peculiarly for the reproduction of their lives. nature.
I really want to know why emperor penguins know, how can they remember, that long and long way of breeding? In order to reproduce the next generation, penguins go to the same place in groups and form a slender line." "Penguin Dragon", curved and extended, slowly, warmly, advancing with small, cumbersome steps.
Under the camera, this penguin dragon is nearly hundreds of meters long, my God! There are so many penguins!
I personally found a very strange little secret after watching this movie: that is, emperor penguins love to walk.
The body is so cumbersome and the walking speed is extremely slow, the maximum average speed is only 500 meters per hour. Use webbed feet to move forward, and use your abdomen to slide on the ice at a speed of at least 6-8 kilometers per hour. Why do you keep walking! ! !
I finally walked to the extreme inland, away from all the natural enemies of penguins, and away from all the food that can be eaten. Hundreds of penguins gather in groups and start looking for their destined mate.
(Strange ~ they don't look at each other on the way forward...)
The camera shifts to another unnamed polar region, where a weaker, slower-paced penguin moans helplessly in the white wasteland. No one responded to it.
It will eventually leave this world.
The impressive thing about the documentary is that it is so-called objective truth. Simply recording the occurrence of the event, of course, the final editing must still bring the author's subjective point of view, so that this narrative line can have flesh and blood.
And what makes the documentary sick (it should make me sick) is that it is objectively true. I couldn't bear to see Penguin Ludan moan continuously without rushing forward to lead it to the destined meeting point. I couldn't bear to see the little penguin being bitten and eaten by the strange bird, instead of rushing forward to drive the strange bird away.
The man said, this is to destroy the law of nature, this is the food chain that cannot be changed. The side that saved mankind thought it was pitiful, the other side will eventually be pitiful.
Watching penguins find their mates, beside each other chest to chest, silently promise each other for life. But maybe because this documentary is a universal relationship, I don't know what their mating process is like at all.
Watching the egg was born, moved. When the female penguin struggles to pass the egg to the male penguin, these dozens of seconds are related to the success or failure of reproduction. Many eggs are frozen due to being exposed to the scorching cold for too long, and the egg liquid freezes instantly. Broke the eggshell.
This is the end of a year of hard work. I saw the male and female penguins quietly, looking down at the useless egg, my tears were about to burst.
Really sad.
I found that this film really makes people see the penguin reproduction process almost completely. It turns out that there are too many difficulties and variables between them from laying penguin eggs, to hatching, to nurturing, and to the fact that the little penguins can start a new life independently.
If the egg is successfully entrusted to the father, the little penguin may not be safe from now on. Female penguins left the polar inland and returned to the seaside to hunt for food (have not eaten for 3 months). Some of them died of physical exhaustion, and some were dragged to eat when they encountered seals in the sea. Once the mother penguin does not come back from this trip, the little penguin will also die.
The dads also didn't eat for 4 months because dad would abandon them to forage.
There will also be strange birds, some of which freeze to death when they are born.
Only about 60% of the people who really successfully survived and could live independently.
Seeing this I can't help but say hello to the behind-the-scenes crew and give them a thumbs up.
There has never been a feature film that comprehensively describes the struggle and victory of the Emperor Penguin. Therefore, the shooting task is extremely huge, and all the staff must camp in Antarctica, where they spend thirteen months of cold winter, without any possibility of sea and air transportation! So everyone seems to be stranded in the Antarctic, but because they have been there, the photography team can capture the complete and various penguin behaviors!
It takes more than a willingness to keep promises to be able to spend more than a whole year in an isolated icy wasteland. The two photographers' first-of-its-kind alignment made everything smoother. Jerome Maison is a sailor who has long been familiar with marine biology, specializing in polar research; Laurent Chalet, the main photographer, has long been familiar with feature films and documentaries.
All progress must be in line with the penguin's cycle. Logistics supplies must be calculated, including all the necessary equipment to spend a year in the polar cold. In terms of photographic equipment, a mechanical camera must also be selected to still operate at minus 40 degrees. , and the machine must be able to repair itself when it suddenly fails.
The photography team gets up at 5:30 every day, spends an hour and a half getting ready, and then gets dressed to go.
The photography team needs to be on the lookout at all times, because even the most accurate scientific predictions can't tell when the penguins will gather.
In order to capture the most beautiful pictures, they dived into the sea at minus 20 degrees; they ran around the Antarctic ice sheet every day with 60 kilograms of equipment; they followed the footsteps of penguins in the strong wind and moved inland; they ran between the polar coast and the inland ice sheet. , so we can see the moving story of the polar regions in the subtropics; we can see the long-distance adventure of emperor penguins every year for the great birth.
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