Unlike most other birds, penguins can"t fly, though this one sure looks like it"s trying—or jumping for joy since today is Penguin Awareness Day. Actually, these gentoo penguins on Danco Island, just off the Antarctic Peninsula, were photographed leaping out of the water as they returned to their nests for breeding season, which starts in November.
Penguins can t fly!
Today in History
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Hitsujiyama Park, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
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Peel Castle on St. Patrick’s Isle with the Isle of Man in the background
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Midnight sun
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Indigo bunting
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Fin whales: A success story
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Italy s submerged village
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What are these creatures?
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Corn maze in Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania
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It s Australia Day
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International Day for Biological Diversity
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Happy 800th, Salisbury Cathedral
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National Park Service anniversary
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National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day
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World Architecture Day
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Autumn in Alaska
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Blackbird in Essex, England
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Gardens by the Bay nature park, Singapore
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Protecting Alaska
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Defying gravity on a swing ride
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Daylight saving time begins
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World Oceans Day
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A bridge of Madison County
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Go climb a tree
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Midwinter freeze
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Clouds over the River of Grass
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In the Himalayas for International Mountain Day
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Combating extinction with citizen science
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Quebec City for Winter Carnival
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Sitting down and taking a stand
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Przewalskis horses, Hustai National Park, Mongolia