How does a penguin launch itself from the sea? - The Wonder of Animals | BBC
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Watch the BBC first on iPlayer 👉 bbc.in/iPlayer-Home How does a bird, the same weight as a baby hippo, get itself out of the water?
Chris explores details of the penguin's anatomy, using new scientific research to reveal how its legs, wings and body shape have allowed it to conquer an extraordinary range of habitats, from deep forests to tropical waters, bustling cities and even the toughest place on the planet - Antarctica.
At first sight, penguins seem ill-suited to their environment - rotund abdomens, stubby little legs and stiff wings appear to make the going tough. But in fact it is these very traits that enable this bird to thrive.
The Wonder of Animals | Episode 1: Penguins | BBC
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Penguins are so majestic underwater, and then on the ice they are wobbly, gorgeous little dumplings!
@seblatkovic5245
5 жыл бұрын
55t a
@grytlappar
5 жыл бұрын
They're so surprisingly fast under water, they're like torpedos!!
@lmoral222
4 жыл бұрын
I wonder how they taste
@donparker5349
4 жыл бұрын
@@lmoral222 They taste like snow and fish. You thought they tasted like marshmallows, didn't you? *Note:* This is obviously a joke. Please don't get offended.
@bearmugs1408
4 жыл бұрын
such a perfect way to sum a penguin up! "dumplings"
The moment you realized the penguins were using supersonic torpedo technology to launch themselves out of the water..
@Strong70
4 жыл бұрын
Hahaha
@bigblue207
4 жыл бұрын
I’m gonna be that guy but supersonic isn’t a thing underwater, water is an incompressible fluid
@rgudduu
4 жыл бұрын
@@bigblue207 , explain plz
@bigblue207
4 жыл бұрын
rgudduu so basically it has to do with the density of a fluid. Air and water are obviously both fluids and the technical definition of a fluid has to do with the fact that it deforms under a shear force or something, but that doesn’t really matter here. What matters is that water can’t change its density because of the chemical bonds being too strong or something. Air on the other hand, if you go fast enough, actually can change its density which results in effects like the shock wave and this is called compressible flow. I think the regime for compressible flow starts around 0.3 Mach. Engineers really just care about compressible flow because it changes the assumptions you can make about the flow but the bottom line is it’s way easier to break the sound barrier in water than air because the density of air changes when you go fast
@rgudduu
4 жыл бұрын
@@bigblue207 , you meant "easier in air than water", no?
3:52One penguin be like “Nope I need more speed!” *takes left turn*
4:20 Cool penguins don't look at other penguins being cool.
@MrMiD.Life.Crisis
5 жыл бұрын
That made my day. As he turns im picturing him saying; "Yo...dont spoil my close up".
@londreslocacoesevendasdeim2783
4 жыл бұрын
That's a freezing cool bird.
@dyscea
4 жыл бұрын
😂😂😂😂
@spermchef2731
4 жыл бұрын
Nice
@sheikhu1039
4 жыл бұрын
He's like, meh I can do that 😂
My heart melted at 4:00 the cinematography is gorgeous with the background music
the imagery is absolutely beautiful
@littlegiant4338
3 жыл бұрын
All I can see is ice
4:19 "SQAAAAUUGGHHHH"
@criddlemonsta1
5 жыл бұрын
🤣🤣🤣🤣 I don't even know why I'm laughing so hard at your comment.
@HeavymetalHylian
5 жыл бұрын
I was looking to see if someone pointed it out lol
@TEXAS2459
5 жыл бұрын
lol
@LoveLondon5
4 жыл бұрын
😂😂😂
4:02 Hair Commercials be like
@crackingcards
4 жыл бұрын
Lmaoooo
@diutrinh1240
3 жыл бұрын
Underrated comment lol
@baharafghanzad5864
2 жыл бұрын
😄😄😂
“This flightless bird finally becomes airborne” 😂😂
@brownebonygoddess4469
3 жыл бұрын
@Paulette and Ava HQ Right. So immature
@peaelle42
3 жыл бұрын
-inserts penguin cry in slow-mo-
@lilkayta00
2 жыл бұрын
The hype is phenomenal 😂
This is why I love penguins so much. They're one of the most interesting animals you can see.
"How does a bird with a weight of a baby hippo get itself out of the water" Now I can't get the mental image of a baby hippo yeeting itself out of the water out of my head, thanks BBC.
0:07 That penguin in tha backround is trying to yell us that the narrator is wrong.
I was just wondering why there were bubbles when they were swimming. I initially thought it's vacuum bubbles because they swim fast, but I soon realized that's absurd. There's no way they can swim that fast. Glad it was explained in the end.
@melger2010
Ай бұрын
Penguins
Dafuq?! How comes penguins learned about physics?!
@silvercat18
5 жыл бұрын
They eat fish and fish swim in schools!
@onlybooks6757
5 жыл бұрын
God taught them
@mehere8821
5 жыл бұрын
God taught them :)
@namaloompakistani1768
5 жыл бұрын
I want some atheist to answer this . I just want to laugh
@MehrunesKar
5 жыл бұрын
It is called evolution and adaptation
They're like freaking torpedoes
4:19 “morning, joe” “Oh hi frank”
“The more body fat, the more likely they are to survive the coming winter” Ooo, that’s a good excuse. I might start using that!
@dave5194
2 жыл бұрын
Who needs to pay for heating when you have nature’s insulation?
Nature: endlessly fascinating. BBC documentaries: endlessly spectacular.
Every day I learn about animals I realize many of them are a lot more intelligent than I thought. I think they are so intelligent to the point that they know what they are and that they exist. Like these penguins.
Amazing close up footage as they leave the water and while airborne. Happy Penguin Awareness Day!
45 dislike.. they are must be leopard Seals.. really 😂😂 lol
@danielhissi585
4 жыл бұрын
Chandan Yadav and Killer whales
Very impressive footage from the penguins. I would love a camera going to the depths with the penguins to see what type of fish they prefer or see the fish hunt.
2:30 rip penguin dude that went sideways
@provpaw2
5 жыл бұрын
lol
@optimisticwhovian1726
5 жыл бұрын
he didn't die he would've just tried again, there were too many penguins in his way so he aborted the launch.
@MillenniumEarl014
5 жыл бұрын
@@optimisticwhovian1726 Technical difficulties.
@KHEDOofficial
4 жыл бұрын
@@provpaw2 Not cleared for take off due to heavy wake turbulence.
@PriyankaGupta-ew1li
3 жыл бұрын
@@MillenniumEarl014 😂😂😂
Astonishing. Astonishing related, astonishing wxplained, astonishing mechanism of the penguins, astonishing their intelligence, astonishing filmation, astonishing beautiful penguins that shine in the sun and in the water. The last scene from 4:03 until the end with their normal way of talk is amazing. Thanks!
This series ROCKS!
it's 230 am and i'm bored af but this is crazy shit lol
@sandhyasubba1758
6 жыл бұрын
Paul Gainer 😂
@michaelwestman3902
6 жыл бұрын
Deadass 430 am here and I just searched penguins so I feel lmao
@Ethan-lm1nm
6 жыл бұрын
+Bug Nuts there better than you and they have a skillage unlike you. So sorry😁😁 oops😮not sorry
@michaelwestman3902
6 жыл бұрын
Ethan Fox what are you talking about you bum
That slow mo penguin scream at the end was hilarious 😂
@kieraemerson9020
Жыл бұрын
It was the best 😂
Amazing research! Penguins are so beautifully designed to "fly" underwater. I couldn't help but chuckle when one guy collided with another and did a bit of an endo @ 1:12.
@ricachuuuu
2 жыл бұрын
lol noticed this too
2:01 looks like ICBMS out of the submarine
It made me cry when he said “ This flightless bird finally becomes airborne “.
They probably also are looking to see how tall the ice is so they know how fast and what angle they need to come up at.
most beautiful filming i have literally ever seen
God, these animals are so extremely beautiful. In so much Awe!
i want to be a penguin soon as possible!
@imoved.4876
7 жыл бұрын
lordrampage same
@isakito1997
6 жыл бұрын
please no. these animals must live free ♥
@CJbrinkman602
6 жыл бұрын
Swapnil Agnihotri *Sea lion
@travisnelson9104
6 жыл бұрын
Their lives are extremely tough
@user-jq8qv4yx4h
6 жыл бұрын
No, you don't. As an egg, you might get stolen by a sea gull in some places, as a chick, if you don't get eaten or orphaned and die from starvation or eaten by a predator bird, you might get eaten as an adult by an Orca or sea lion. If you don't get eaten, you might get maimed and injured by escaping those predators. Not an easy life at all.
Hey penguin finally can fly
What did he say? "This flightless bird, finally becomes airborne". Well, well, I'll take that for a parting shot.
“A third of which is blubber-“ Me: *busts down the door* Okay who just called for me?
They are like underwater missiles
It's just like super cavitating torpedo.
Their landing reminds me ANGRY BIRD game.
What an utterly extraordinary adaptation! "Jet-powered penguins" !! :) :)
and we thought we figured out physics first.
01:00 when they swim they look like they r flying
Them being able to do this is just incredible. Nature is beautiful.
What an amazing animal.
i love penguins!!!
Well i'm more likely to survive in the north pole Because i'm fat😂
@rustinstardust2094
4 жыл бұрын
Same. I want to slide on the ice on my own blubbery belly...it looks fun af!
Wonderfully presented and clearly narrated - well done! Attenborough worthy work!
Wow this is fascinating!!
I live in Istanbul/Turkey and today I visited aqua floria where there's penguins. I saw them swimming, they swim so fast and take maneuvers so fast
damnn... what a great moment you captured!!
this was incredible and beautiful at the same time. majestic birds 💕
@Dragon-Slay3r
Жыл бұрын
Birds was made to scream so the blue thobe holding books makes sense lol
How wonderfully they are made
penguin at sea : i am speed
Someone explain at what point in the evolutionary process did this particular water bird develop this incredibly advanced and specific technique.
@djninja2425
3 жыл бұрын
Theres been many animals that have developed a lot of specific and impressive techniques.For example squirells they developed the technique to jump from any height well not any but they could jump from the empire state building and still live without injury,the way they do this is by spreading out their arma and legs so theu fall slower and then at the end retract their legs and arms and basically use them as spring,cats can do this too to some extent.I suggest you watch mark robers video on squirells he explained it much better. I mean bats have echo location,so do dolphins. And sharks have something similar.I mean theres spiders that make air bubbles using their webbing so they can go underwater.And theres lizards that can even run on water.
@AverageThinking
3 жыл бұрын
DJninja24 I am fully aware of all of this and it only further emphasizes my pointed question.
@djninja2425
3 жыл бұрын
@@AverageThinking Well its all just adaptation and evolution.Just like bats have developed echo location penguins have developed this.
@AverageThinking
3 жыл бұрын
DJninja24 right. But at what point? This is very complex and very specific. What conditions would cause this “adaptation” to occur? It makes no sense to me that a bird could suddenly cease its flying, take to swimming, and within a few thousand generations turn itself into a pneumatic cannon. It seems like too many mutations and skill acquisitions would have to happen simultaneously for such a transitioning creature to survive its awkward evolutionary progress.
@djninja2425
3 жыл бұрын
@@AverageThinking Well what can i say nature is sometimes weird.
They're like rocket launch into the surface! 🚀 Amazing!!!
I loved the last phrase you said
Penguins seem so intelligent
underwater rocket launches with same concept. Nature's creation, brilliant
@rgudduu
4 жыл бұрын
Elaborate
They look like tiny torpedoes ♥️
How can penguins swim so fast with that massive body ? They're not even FISH 😂
@Koraxus
4 жыл бұрын
there were extinct avians even more adapted to water than pinguins. I think they were called hesperornithes or something.
It looks like their flying out of water, flying penguins, the deeper they go, the higher they are aboveground!
The penguins is like a torpedo release from a submarine
Omg!!!! Penguins are my favorite animal!!!🐧
This is wonderful.Great piece of work by team BBC and the way they explained is something brilliant.
4:20 the penguin be like "hey dude im being photographed how dare you ruin my moment" whahahsh
The information is mind-blowing and the cinematics plus music is beautiful. I almost feel a bit emotional, Idk why.
this makes me way too happy ^^
Do you still think there is no one running this universe. Is it running by itself?
@TheLluison
4 жыл бұрын
Yes, I think so. In the case of penguins they don't need to figure out the physics behind to do It. They seem to apply behavior patterns that they already use in other situations to this problem. I think that the first one that discover this behavior was by being very sensitive to what was doing that speed up to get out of the water. Then it was imitated and stablished in the whole population.
@mobeen360
4 жыл бұрын
@@TheLluison so where this behaviuor came from? And penguins imitated this behaviour? So you mean penguins didn't have this behaviour in the past but one of the penguins who was so smart to figure the way? And everyone imitated him? So how did they managed to survive before the trick. So why they are still using this technique? They should have built a scuba diving kit after all thise millions of year of evolution? Brother don't you see it's mind blowing for us humans but these flight less bird knew this trick since millions of years. If these birds are so genius to invent they should have taken over the planet!
Penguins are so cute
Precious babies
Penguin-powered Torpedoes seem legit
"I believe I can fly," says the penguin in 4:06. But sadly only within seconds in the air but they still fly underwater though like fishes.
@speedygonzalez6054
5 жыл бұрын
Amazing Penguin Migration An amazing look at a Penguin Migration by a recently discovered colony of penguins that is unlike any other penguin colony. These penguins are true snowbirds as they have decided to ditch the cold and ice of Antarctica and fly North to the tropical rainforests of South America. If you’d like to see a beautiful look at Emperor Penguins watch biggeekdad.com/2014/01/penguin-migration/
Flightless bird finally becomes airborne
2:00 looks like underwater missiles
They are not flightless, they're built to fly underwater
@rakshithdas2158
2 жыл бұрын
I know , their feathers are meant to trap and release air underwater creating a small area of air bubbles which they use to breathe underwater while flying underwater at high speeds to reach surfaces .
4:11 I believe I can flyyyy. I believe I can touch the skyyyy.
I want to be penguins as soon as possible
This is unbelievable.. So amazing.
Beautiful creature
The fact they look like fish underwater is funny
I love penguins !
The air in their bodies creates a thrust effect...just like a ball underwater
So basically penguins have natural jet packs lol
Why am I crying after seeing a penguin fly our of the water like a missile?
They are beyond graceful in the water, oh to be able to swim and dive like that😍
While I'm sure some of the reason they slide is help travel, I have no doubt they slide on their bellies for fun as well.
Gods great ingenuity in creation😊
penguins literally have built-in DRS. that's amazing
That penguin looks so cute jumps out
They're like torpedoes underwater
This things are the prime splendor of existence.
look at this beauty😍😍 penguins are so cute and amazing I just love them😍😍❤️❤️❤️
when they goes up they goes up like a rocket
Beautiful work!! Bravo!
The unmistakeable ,CHRIS PACKUM .
They're like torpedoes underwater.
They launch like missiles
I wonder when the day comes someone tells the military about penguins.
This blew me away. How fascinating! I wonder if they think it's fun. You know, like us humans do, it's fun to go really fast!