It’s official: penguins don’t fall over backwards when aircraft fly overhead.
British pilots came back from the 1982 Falklands War with stories about penguins
toppling over. Concerned that increasing air traffic might endanger wildlife, a
team led by Richard Stone of the British Antarctic Survey has just spent five
weeks watching a thousand king penguins on the island of South Georgia. After
numerous overflights by two Royal Navy Lynx helicopters, “not one king penguin
fell over”, Stone told Reuters.
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