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Capturing Emperor Penguins: Filmmaker Braved Antarctic Winter To Film Majestic Mating Ritual

"My Penguin Year: Life Among the Emperors" chronicles Lindsay McCrae's time filming emperor penguins raising chicks in Antarctica.
Cuddling chicks. (Lindsay McCrae)

Here & Now‘s Tonya Mosley speaks with Lindsay McCrae (@badgerboy05), whose book “My Penguin Year: Life Among the Emperors” chronicles his time filming emperor penguins raising chicks in Antarctica.

Book Excerpt: ‘My Penguin Year’

By Lindsay McCrae

To the Other End of the Earth

The next day we all woke early to our first morning at Neumayer, keen to start learning the ropes of living in our new home. So keen, in fact, that we’d forgotten to alter our clocks back from South African time and arrived for breakfast an hour early. Throughout the morning it became

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