Cutest video you'll see all day of penguins flying on a plane

[Video Link.] Yahoo's "Sideshow" blog has the story behind this video, and an accompanying photo gallery slideshow. On a recent Delta Flight, there were 300 or so human passengers and two foot-and-a-half tall penguins, Pete and Penny, who are 6 and 12 years old respectively. They were on their way to the New York premiere of "Frozen Planet," a new Discovery Channel documentary series narrated by Alec Baldwin. Like the narrator, the penguins fly first class. I hope they behaved better on the plane than he has been known to.

[photo: SeaWorld penguins Pete and Penny on display at the "Frozen Planet" premiere at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center on March 8, 2012 in New York City. Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images]

Boing Boing editor/partner and tech culture journalist Xeni Jardin hosts and produces Boing Boing's in-flight TV channel on Virgin America airlines (#10 on the dial), and writes about living with breast cancer. Diagnosed in 2011. @xeni on Twitter. email: xeni@boingboing.net.

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rrh

Penguins can’t fly! PENGUINS CAN’T FLY!
- chellberty
  
  ..fly planes! http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=e4Y2Q1-Lb8Y#t=406s
http://twitter.com/criminalcrafts Miss Demeanor

Penguins on a plane? I’ve had it with these cute goddamn penguins on a plane.
ahecht

Those look like African or Magellanic penguins to me. Surrounding them with crushed ice is a bit cruel, as they rarely encounter temperatures below freezing in their natural habitat.
- EH
  
  Don’t let your internet expertise get in the way of criticizing professionals.
  - http://twitter.com/MartianEmpress Rezeya Montecore
    
    Nonsense, you know how many sickos get jobs in animal handling just so they can pack birds in ice for their own twisted pleasures. It’s very important that the public adopt a “See Something, Say Something” attitude towards avian temperature control.
    - EH
      
      It’s really a testament to how evil these people are that they restrict themselves to more subtle forms of torture than sticks and fire.
- http://twitter.com/MartianEmpress Rezeya Montecore
  
  *checks “animal-welfare concern troll” off of BoingBoing Bingo card*
http://www.avoision.com/ avoision

Can’t remember if it’s already been posted to BB, but San Diego’s Sea World has a penguin cam, featuring about 300 penguins. Found via Metafilter.
Michael Sheehan

I’ve HAD IT with these MOTHERF***ING PENGUINS on this MOTHERF***ING PLANE!
penguinchris

(^_^)

In case anyone hasn’t seen this classic internet video: penguin wears backpack to fish market and brings fish home, by himself
Alex Schneider

I’m just happy they didn’t get double-tapped by some pervy air marshal type.
- social_maladroit
  
  I just hope that Penny’s still able to lay viable eggs after going through the TSA’s body scanner.
irksome

I’m torn between “All those people who’ve ever said, ‘Yeah sure, when penguins fly’ are in a heap of trouble” or “The terrorists have won”.
davechua

Alec Baldwin? They replaced David Attenborough with him?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00mfl7n
- http://www.mrericsir.com MrEricSir
  
  Didn’t you hear? David Attenborough hates nature now.
http://profile.yahoo.com/J5LY6JWNXQXY3F6ZY4KNMXA2TU Flintlock Cat

Wait. Flightless birds are OK but cupcakes in jars are no good? And if I fly with my kid, I gotta put her in a CAR SEAT! But hese over-sized orca jigs get to WANDER AROUND THE PLANE? What if they have box cutters in their cloacae?
CrivenS

Wait american Frozen Planet is narrated by Baldwin?

Man you guys miss out on the the real deal then:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00mfl7n
http://twitter.com/bigbadchang Chang Terhune

Damn, now I want pet penguins! Bet the cat and dog would hate them but the waddling and the following is damn cute.

On video at least.
EH

You might want to use a picture that can be viewed.