Thomas McShane, Friend, Foe or Food? (ANIMALS 2024)

Sometimes called the 'little people of Antarctica' and familiar to us due to their Hollywood fame, the Adélie penguin has been described as sometimes solemn, sometimes humorous, enterprising and cheeky, but always characteristically captivating such as these Adélie adrift on an iceberg off Vernadsky Research Base, Antarctica.

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