Action in the ocean: penguin hunt caught on video

The Argentine Wildlife Conservation Society program has released an amazing underwater selfie video recently taken by a male penguin.

The penguin filmed his own sardine hunt / Photo: Newsroom

In order for the animal to film the process of its hunting, a special camera was attached to it during the trip for food.

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The footage was filmed in the Beagle Channel off Isla Martillo, in Tierra del Fuego in Argentina, writes Newsroom.

The footage shows how the penguin, with amazing speed and agility, constantly dives and scrolls through shoals of sardines.

Several times he missing individual sardines and swallows them. In the distance, you can see other penguins, as well as diving cormorants and albatrosses.

Gentoo penguins usually looking for food at the bottom of the sea, but the footage showed that if they stumbled upon a school of bait along the way, they would not miss the opportunity to eat.

Upon the return of the penguin, the camera was removed from him, after which the scientists continued to observe breeding success of its nest.

Ghent continued fulfill your parental responsibilities and take care of offspring, the researchers assured.

Recall that Ukrainian polar explorers previously recorded how seals exchange sounds from Star Wars.

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Source From: Segodnya

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