Gallery: Meet the Penguins
From the famous Phillip Island parade to the suburb of St Kilda, ABC showcases the world’s smallest penguin.
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Dr Ann Jones, who featured last week on Southern Ocean Live, is back with Meet the Penguins, looking at the world’s smallest penguins, living on the southern coastline of Australia.
From the famous penguin parade on Phillip Island to the penguins living in the city suburb of St Kilda, we meet key characters who over the next six months attempt to complete their mission: to stake their territory, partner up and raise their chicks.
Inside the colony are both tales of domestic bliss and neighbourhood dramas. While out at sea, the little penguins are forced to face trials of tempestuous weather, strong currents and migrating fish stocks.
Warm, surprising, revelatory, and uplifting, Meet the Penguins, shows us that whilst the Little Penguins may be the world’s smallest penguin, they might just be the toughest too!
8:30pm Tuesday on ABC.
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3 Responses
These are actually Fairy Penguins ,the name should have stayed the way it was ,I’ve been there when they were called that back in 1993 so to me that’s what I’ll always know them as.
Reclassified as a subspecies of Little Penguins, but maybe the doco will explain.
I shall tune in and observe.