The clip has garnered over 2.6 million views in less than 12 hours. (representative photo)
Office-goers after the weekend can understand the pain of commuting on the road during busy hours. Long queues of vehicles, bumper-to-bumper traffic and honking cars can take away your sanity. But a video of a different kind of “morning rush” is gaining ground on social media that will surely bring a smile to your face.
A group of penguins in the Antarctic are crowded, as can be seen in the video. The stationary camera shows some of these adorable creatures slouching on their stomachs, others swimming or imitating a swim.
While the video shows most of these flightless birds leaving the camera frame and swiftly crossing, a lone penguin runs towards the end of the video.
The clip was posted by Buitengbiden on Twitter with the caption: “Antarctic morning rush”. It garnered over 2.6 million views in less than 12 hours.
Antarctic morning rush.. pic.twitter.com/oCs9dZpDKh
— buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) 24 July 2022
Twitter users delighted to see penguins enjoying and posting other such moments Video of various animals in response.
One user commented, “It’s hard to go to work…there’s nothing like taking your kid to work.” “Imagine it’s freezing on your way to work,” said another.
A third user commented, “It was visually mesmerizing.”
According to the Encyclopdia Britannica, more than 18 species of penguins live only in the Southern Hemisphere. Some penguins inhabit temperate regions, and one, the Galapagos penguin (spheniscus mendiculus), lives on the equator.
People all over the world love penguins because of their stocky, short legged looks. They are about 35 cm (14 in) in height and about 1 kg (about 2 lb) in weight.
Most are black on the back and white below, often with black lines on the upper breast or white spots on the head. Color is rare, limited to red or yellow irritation of the eyes in some species.
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