We started watching 'Happy Feet' not long ago. We lasted 10 minutes. What a load of complete bol**cks. We switched off at the bit where it was revealed that each penguin has it's own 'heart song'. Also, Kate revealed that she has March of the Penguins on DVD so we watched that instead. The graphics were much better.
A bit of research has answered the black back/white front question. Biologists call this counter-shading; it means that when the birds are swimming they are harder to see from both above and below, allowing them to hunt fish and avoid being eaten by seals. A few years back, there was a report conducted as to why penguins living near runways often fell over backwards whenever a plane flew over, with some people suggesting that they just watched them fly overhead and lost their balance. But actually they are hiding their black bits and comoflaging themselves on the snowfield with their white fronts - they obviously see the airplanes as a threat which is crazy because they live nowhere near Heathrow.
I am now very aware of penguins. Especially when I get picture messages like this from Emma:
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