"I found that penguins differed in their reactions to being hoisted between human legs. Some were calm, mildly befuddled at how they got a foot off the ground. Others acted as if they were possessed, squirming and slapping and biting. Penguins are beefy birds, sleek bullets of swimming muscle, torpedoes of power, and they slapped impressively hard."

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What It’s Like to Live on Antarctica and Study Penguins As a Scientist

How I came to feel at home in what some call the last wilderness on Earth—Antarctica.

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