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1 online resource (streaming video file) (26 min. 36 sec.) ; 159954850 bytes |
| Summary |
On tonight's episode of Penguin Island, unlucky-in-love Rocky finally finds a mate in Jess, whose previous clutch of chicks has died. But it's very late in the season to be raising chicks before the penguins' annual moult prevents them going to sea. While in the burrow next door, Spike and Tash's chicks already are preparing to head off on their own. Jess endures a parasite infestation as she waits patiently with her newborn chicks, desperate for Rocky to return to feed them. He arrives just in time to save their sole surviving chick, Tilda.Meanwhile, wildlife carer Marg Healy gets her most difficult patient yet when a juvenile Australasian gannet is found on the beach and proves more interested in biting her than in eating the fish that will keep him alive. Biologist Andre Chiaradia reveals just what penguins get up to underwater by attaching a tiny computerised logging device to an unwitting penguin. When moulting season arrives, the penguins begin to shed their feathers. Hungry and grumpy they must wait on shore until their new feathers grow so they are waterproof, weatherproof and they are able to return to the sea to fish. PRODUCTION DETAILS:360 Degree Film. Series Producer: Sally Ingleton; Series Director: Simon Target; Executive Producer: Sally Ingleton; Director of Photography: David Parer and music composed by Dale Cornelius. ABC TV Commissioning Editor: Alan Erson |
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Closed captioning in English |
| Event |
Broadcast 2010-10-28 at 20:00:00 |
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Classification: G |
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Birds -- Breeding.
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Little blue penguin.
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Penguins -- Behavior.
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Penguins -- Habitat.
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Wildlife conservation -- Management.
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Wildlife television programs.
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Australia -- South Coast.
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Streaming video
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Harris, Rolf, cast
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Target, Simone, director
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