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Sam 2022-03-26 09:01:11

These penguins are all heading to the open water to the right, but one of them caught our eye, the one in the center.

He would neither go towards the feeding ground at the edge of ice nor return to the colony.

Shortly afterwards, we saw him heading straight towards the mountains, some seventy kilometers away.

Dr. Ainsley explained :

That even if he caught him and brought him back to the colony, he would immediately head right back for the mountains.

But why?

One of these disoriented, or deranged penguins showed up at the New Harbor diving camp, already some eighty kilometers away from where it should be.

The rules for the humans are don't disturb or hold up the penguin. Stand still and let him go on his way. And here he's heading off into the interior of the vast continent with 5000 kilometers ahead of him, he's heading towards certain death . The encounters at the end of world.

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  • Werner Herzog: It occurred to me that in the time that we spent with him in the greenhouse possibly three or four languages have died. In our efforts to preserve endangered species we seem to overlook something equally important. To me, it's a sign of a deeply disturbed civilization, where tree-huggers and whale-huggers in their weirdness are acceptable, while no one embraces the last speakers of a language.

  • Werner Herzog: For me, the best description of hunger is the description of bread. A poet said that once I think. For me, the best description of freedom is what you have in front of you. You're travelling a lot.