March Madness

The March of the Penguins is a great nature documentary.  The film shows, dramatically and with yet another 'voice-of-god' narration by Morgan Freeman, how Emporer Penguins manage to sustain themselves whilst caring for their new family through the blasts of an Antartic Winter.

Two notes: The documentary doesn't really explain how many penguins there are or where they breed. Apparently, there are many large colonies all around the Antartic shoreline, totaling about 195,000 breeding pairs.

And the Internet Movie Database notes that "The original French version features dialog for the penguins and a pop music soundtrack." How puerile.

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