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It’s always crush hour in the creche for these chilly emperor penguin chicks.
對于這些怕冷的帝企鵝寶寶來說，托兒所永遠處在高峰時刻。
But when it’s -60C and the wind is 100mph, huddling together makes p-p-p-perfect sense. Having a tight protective circle of grown-ups also helps.
而在零下60℃低溫，每英里風速100的環境下，擠成一團就完完全說得通了。一群成年帝企鵝圍城一圈保護它們，希望能讓企鵝寶寶好受得多。
This astonishing shot of parental devotion, printed in the Sunday People today, was filmed by a crew who spent eight months with the Antarctica penguins.
今天《星期天人民報》刊登了這張照片，其中企鵝父母的奉獻精神令人稱奇。這個紀錄片的拍攝團隊在南極和企鵝一起度過了八個月時間。
It is one of the amazing scenes in a three-part BBC TV documentary, Penguins – Spy in the Huddle, narrated by former Doctor Who star David Tennant.
這是BBC紀錄片《企鵝群里有特務》中最嘆為觀止的場景之一，旁邊講解者是出演《神秘博士》的蘇格蘭演員大衛·田納特。
The spy in the title refers to 50 robot cameras that were sent in to film the colony without ruffling feathers.
標題中的“特務”指的是50臺安置在企鵝聚居地的機器人攝像機，外形又不至于惹怒企鵝們。
Disguised as eggs, animated penguins, chicks and snow and ice, the cameras captured previously unseen behaviour.
這些攝像機偽裝成企鵝蛋、會動的企鵝、企鵝寶寶、雪或是冰，拍攝下了前所未見的企鵝的行為。
John Downer, who built the robots, said: “In 35 years of making wildlife films I have never seen or captured so much new behaviour of any animal as I have with penguins.”
BBC導演John Downer是這些裝置的制造者，他說：“在拍攝野生動物的35年中，我從來沒有在其他動物身上捕捉到這么多新奇的行為。”
The team filmed 1,000 hours of intimate behaviour over 300 consecutive days, the longest ever shoot of emperors. The crew filmed females without mates trying to break up couples.
該團隊在連續300天中近距離拍攝下了1000小時的錄像，這是世上最長的對帝企鵝的拍攝。攝制組拍攝下了一些沒有伴侶的雌企鵝試圖拆散別的企鵝夫妻。
John said: “Later, alone and without young of their own, they would resort to chick-napping. Some adults who lost their chicks even ‘adopted’ eggcams.
John說：“還有一些自己沒有寶寶孤零零的企鵝會‘誘拐企鵝兒童’。一些失去了自己的寶寶的成年企鵝甚至會‘領養’企鵝蛋形狀的攝像機。”
“We also recorded extraordinary close-ups showing emperor mothers flicking their tail feathers to catch the newly laid egg and stop it touching the snow.”
“我們也拍攝了一些非同尋常的近距離攝影，比如帝企鵝媽媽會突然擺動尾巴抓住剛剛生下來的企鵝蛋，不讓它接觸到地上的雪。”
