Twenty years after the world fell in love with the dapper stars of its Oscar-winning documentary March of the Penguins, Nationwide Geographic is heading again to the world of the waddlers with Secrets and techniques of the Penguins, debuting April 20.
“How are you going to not have a fascination with penguins?” asks acclaimed wildlife filmmaker Bertie Gregory, who spent two years taking pictures this enchanting three-part collection. “Their upright posture and little tuxedo outfits make them such crowd-pleasers…and don’t get me began on the fluffy chicks! I hope viewers won’t solely respect their unimaginable superpowers but additionally have a higher curiosity in defending them and their habitats.”
Government produced by James Cameron and narrated by actress Blake Energetic, Secrets and techniques of the Penguins hops across the globe as these “masters of the ocean and land” give Gregory and his crew a present like by no means earlier than.
“There are such a lot of moments being seen for the primary time,” marvels Gregory of the unimaginable footage he was capable of seize, together with of a daring mama preventing again in opposition to a large sea lion, a colony of cave-dwelling penguins in Africa’s Namib Desert, and the beginning of a chick spawned by members of two totally different penguin species within the Falkland Islands.
Gregory’s private favourite: emperor chicks base-jumping off a 50-foot cliff in Antarctica. “I had heard of this habits, however nobody has ever filmed it for TV earlier than,” he provides. “It by no means actually occurred to me that it’d really be doable.”
And it’s not simply the people on-site who’re having first-time experiences both. “The beauty of penguins is their curiosity. They’d usually come over to analyze us,” remembers Gregory. “A few of these penguins have by no means seen a human being earlier than. As a lot as it may be otherworldly for us, it’s the identical for them!”
Secrets and techniques of the Penguins, Sequence Premiere Sunday, April 20, 8/7c, Nationwide Geographic