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Sounds in almost all nature documentary videos are added later from separate sources.
That makes sense. I'd never thought about it. You've saved me the disappointment of visiting Antarctica to realize that David Attenborough's voice doesn't just chime in whenever you look at something.
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Sounds in almost all nature documentary videos are added later from separate sources.
That makes sense. I'd never thought about it. You've saved me the disappointment of visiting Antarctica to realize that David Attenborough's voice doesn't just chime in whenever you look at something.
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Or, as Haldane wrote in “On being the right size” ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Being_the_Right_Size : “You can drop a mouse down a thousand-yard mine shaft; and, on arriving at the bottom, it gets a slight shock and walks away, provided that the ground is fairly soft. A rat is killed, a man is broken, a horse splashes. For the resistance presented to movement by the air is proportional to the surface of the mov…
That’s half the equation and explains why speeds are lower. There’s another square cube relationship around the volume of an object vs the impact area.
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That’s half the equation and explains why speeds are lower. There’s another square cube relationship around the volume of an object vs the impact area.
And tensile strength of muscles and bones, which is proportional to cross-section area, hence also is tenfold stronger relative to mass.
First, the heading wording feels like intentional clickbait to make at least a portion of people think they might be jumping to their death, they don't!
They build something up like there is something coming, some actual reason WHY they do it from that high. But they totally failed on delivering any reveal, at least in the video, did not read the entire article.
They made up to be some giant mystery, and I was expecting there is some kind of great reveal thing that has some kind of benefit, something evolutionary or whatever something, - nothing - absolutely nothing. Basically because they did not want to walk down a long way I guess, if there even was a way to an easier jump.
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There's edible fish in the water. What other food is there on the ice?
Penguins enter the water all the time to hunt fish. Not off cliffs.
It was their first swim. Maybe the cliff was the closest shore
Something tells me it's just bird genes trying to fly from high. Swimming is a different type of traversal so might even kind of work as a reward mechanic
Very odd footage imo. * most of the birds are falling in because they’re pushed, not because they’re jumping * most of the birds are belly flopping hard rather than diving in with any sort of graceful entry * most birds don’t appear to ever jump. I refuse to believe the camera wouldn’t have shown the whole population in the water if they had
I don't think there is any reason to think a belly flop would have the same effect on a penguin as it would on a human.
Pretty cool, but what is "the secret". First, the heading wording feels like intentional clickbait to make at least a portion of people think they might be jumping to their death, they don't! They build something up like there is something coming, some actual reason WHY they do it from that high. But they totally failed on delivering any reveal, at least in the video, did not read the entire article. They made up to…