Filmmakers from National Geographic were astonished to see hundreds of fledgling emperor penguins leaping from 50ft ice sheets into the freezing water below. It is known that at six months old ...

A film crew spotted 700 emperor penguin chicks gathering ... raising their chicks high up on ice shelves. This means the chicks are being forced to jump into the ocena from much taller heights.

Emperor penguins are dependent on stable sea ice that is firmly attached to the shore from April through to January. If the ice fractures before early December, the young fall into the water and ...

Emperor penguins breed and raise their chicks on land-fast sea ice – stable sea ice that is firmly attached to the shore. If this ice breaks up too early, the chicks go into the sea before they ...