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March 9, 2018

Penguin ‘Selfie’ Video Goes Viral

If penguins and animal selfies are two of your favourite things, you're going to love this clip of some flightless birds playing with a camera.

For a little fun, Eddie Gault, a researcher with the Australian Antarctic Division, put a camera on the ground near an emperor penguin colony at the Auster Rookery in Antarctica.

It wasn’t long before a couple of penguins waddled over to the instrument and started checking it out.

It was already recording, and captured some fantastic close-ups of the pair, reports Engadget.

Take a look:

How adorable? And that gawing sound?

If you have a thing for bird selfies, you might have been reminded of that time a sea eagle stole a camera from the banks of the Margaret River, Australia:

Penguins are better.

[source:engadget]