Animal Herders

Photo by Andrew Evans with National Geographic.

How crazy is this?  A nearly totally black penguin.  This Penguin is a King Penguin, which is "the second largest species of penguin", and these penguins "breed on the subantarctic islands at the northern reaches of Antarctica, as well as Tierra del Fuego, South Georgia, and other temperate islands of the region." (according to Wikipedia)  I first saw this on Yahoo! Green and then found what I believe to be the original article at National Geographic's Intelligent Travel Blog.

In the real-world, animal herding can be dangerous. The following about Mongolia shows the dangers.

'Five men died after a snow storm battered the country on December 23-26. Two of the men, both animal herders, were found frozen to death. Also, 2,222 sheep and goat were killed in the storm. The government classified the phenomenon as “highly severe”.' (Source westernusawx.info accessed January 17, 2010 - http://westernusawx.info/forums/index.php?showtopic=28858)  You can read the original article at the UB Post here: http://ubpost.mongolnews.mn/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4205&Itemid=36.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8408233.stm  This is a BBC video, the title says it all.

The song is addicting, and it's not in English: