Went to watch March of the Penguins yesterday. When I saw the trailer, I actually wasn't interested in it. Then I happened to stumble on the web and it just captured me The story or the facts about these Emperor Penguins are amazing. There they are in Antartica, it's like a whole different world out there. So far from our reality, of our problems that we often hear in the news. Quite surreal seeing them, seeing Antartica. I believe in God and it's just amazing in this same planet, there's a totally different lives going on and how God is still watching them as He watches us. Surreal.

So, this documentary is about the lives of these Emperor Penguins. How, as winter approaches, they will start to make their walk across the white dessert, to a place called Oamock in the story. Apparently, this Oamock is enclosed by granite walls, which according to them (the penguins), it is quite a nice and safe place to mate. So they left their ocean, walk all the way there. Imagine Penguins, with their small feet, imagine how big a step they can make. Sometime they do slide on their tummy. So they walk day and night, without food, because there's no more ocean in their journey. It takes them around 20 days to reach this Oamock. After that, they will mate, 1 female and 1 male. There are more males than females, so the females will have to fight for the males, they will start slapping each other. Kinda funny. I wonder if being slapped by a penguin hurts For the females that don't get a male, it's a wasted trip for them. For the ones with mate, the female will then lay just 1 egg. As soon as they do that, they must transfer the egg to the fathers. The egg will be kept somewhat inside their pouch, just on top of their small feet. It's a very delicate and difficult process. I mean seeing their bodies, I can see that it's difficult. So they must do it delicately and carefully. If there's a slightest crack in the egg then the whole process is wasted because the cold weather will just freeze the egg. Imagine that. So as soon as the eggs are safe with the fathers, the mothers will start to make their way back to the ocean to eat and replenish themselves and have enough reserves food for the babies when the eggs hatch. So it will be 40 days before the fathers see the mothers again. 40 days, where the father have to stand there, without food, and keep the eggs safe and warm.

The mothers return to the ocean and eat. Actually as they do so, they are also becoming targets of predators in the ocean (I think it was seal). If they don't make it, then the whole process they have gone through are a waste. Their babies will die if the mothers don't return. Meanwhile, as I said before, the fathers will stand there waiting for their wives to come back. When a storm or blizzard come, this whole tribe of penguin fathers will huddle together and stand together against the nasty weather. It's pretty amazing. What a sacrifice. The babies hatch and they will get hungry. Sometime, so hungry that the fathers will have to let them eat on the food reserves that they have inside their beaks. This storage was actually meant for them to ensure that they have enough energy to go back to the ocean. As soon as the mothers return, the fathers will give the babies to the mothers, so that the mothers could keep the babies warm and give them food. It's now time for the fathers to go back to the ocean and eat. Amazing, right? How they device this system. The babies will then learn about the environment, make their first steps and get to know their world. As they learn how to walk, their predators will start picking on them (literally). Their predators are birds, I don't know what birds. These birds really only attack the babies. Some babies didn't make it. When their fathers return again, it's already around summer time and these baby penguins will start to get to know their ocean, and maybe around winter time, as usual with the rest of the penguins, they will make their way and start the whole journey their ancestors have walked before. The journey of life, of making life.

Pretty amazing. The documentary is so amazing for me. I can not stop saying amazing When I saw the penguins walk, I suddenly thought that maybe this was what it looked like when Moses lead his people out of Egypt. Me being too imaginative, I thought maybe if reincarnation exists, those people who didn't really trust Moses back then, were reborn as these penguins where they have to make that journey and sacrifice over and over again for the sake of life. The penguins are amazing, amazingly cute How these penguins know where to go, when to go and how to do it all is amazing. God is amazing

:) eKa @ 9:37:00 PM •

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