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   From: admin@127.0.0.1   
      
   On Thu, 26 Aug 2021 20:52:56 -0500   
   JAB  wrote:   
      
   > A Mexican newspaper reports that bored Royal Air Force pilots   
   > stationed on the Falkland Islands have devised what they consider a   
   > marvelous new game.  Noting that the local penguins are fascinated by   
   > airplanes, the pilots search out a beach where the birds are gathered   
   > and fly slowly along it at the water's edge.  Perhaps ten thousand   
   > penguins turn their heads in unison watching the planes go by, and   
   > when the pilots turn around and fly back, the birds turn their heads   
   > in the opposite direction, like spectators at a slow-motion tennis   
   > match.  Then, the paper reports "The pilots fly out to sea and   
   > directly to the penguin colony and overfly it.  Heads go up, up, up,   
   > and ten thousand penguins fall over gently onto their backs.   
   > 		-- Audobon Society Magazine   
      
      
   Urban Myth; did the rounds at least 2 decades ago.   
      
   https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/penguins-fall-over-airplanes/   
      
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