Don't forget. When you laugh at penguins, you're really laughing at yourself!

That's what one of the National Geographic naturalists on board told us during our recent cruise to Antarctica.

These wonderful seabirds in their black and white formal attire show human tendencies and look quite comical as they lift up their little wings and try to keep their balance while walking this way and that . They remind us of little clowns in a circus - Charlie Chaplin comes to mind - as they clumsily waddle about on land. But once ... (more)