Katharina Ruhm, Yael Esti Mor, Maidje Meergans
Mama, Bubu & Me
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'Dr. Enly is there such thing as insanity around penguins? I try to avoid the definition of insanity or derangement. I donât mean that a penguin might believe he or she is
Lenin or Napoleon Bonaparte. But could they just go crazy because they had enough of
their colony?'
'Um, well I never seen a penguin bashing its head against a rock. Um, they do get disoriented. They end up in places they shouldnât be a long way from the ocean.'
These penguins heading all to the open water to the right. But one of them caught our
eye. The one in the center he would neither go towards the feeding grounds at the edge
of the ice nor return to the colony. Shortly afterwards we saw him heading straight towards the mountains some 70km away. Dr. Enly explained that even if he caught him and brought him back to the colony, he would immediately head right back for the mountains. But why?
From: Encounters at the End of the World by Werner Herzog