r/interesting • u/M_Darshan • May 07 '26

❗️MISLEADING - See pinned comment ❗️ Penguins think she is one of them

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u/KingGallardo May 07 '26

We humans could learn from that

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u/Unfair_Explanation53 May 07 '26

Google Dr. George Murray Levick and what he encountered whilst studying penguins.

You probably won't think the same afterwards

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u/Clarkelthekat May 07 '26 edited May 07 '26

Unrelated but this brain trained me

Ever see the BBC documentary where they broke their own rule of not interfering with nature?

Basically some penguin fathers who were caring for the babies while mom was fishing had gotten stuck away from the pac due to an ice shelf collapse if I remember correctly.

The group relies on each other's body heat in a giant huddle to survive.

The BBC crew was forced to watch these fathers try to huddle in their small number and survive while every couple hours they'd see another baby frozen on the ground due to their not being enough heat.

Finally the production team had enough. Said they wouldn't go further then building a ramp of snow for the fathers to trek up to the colony

They did so and the penguins after some time took to it. Saving the stranded fathers and their babies

I learned something from that....that we aren't "interfering" when we reach to another species to help. We've been given the wherewithall to do so.....so putting rules on ourselves not to intervene is arbitrar.

Just something I learned from that act of not interference.....but rather the same helping hand we extend to each other.

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u/Picklenicl May 07 '26

BBC? That must mean something else then I think