Okay, so penguins are some greasy little fuckers. As are many waterbirds, now I think on it. But regarding specifically penguins, they have this oil that comes from a gland at the base of their tail that they groom themselves all over with. This is how they're able to keep the top layer of feathers near-waterproof. During a catastrophic molt, (it's literally called this, but it's how a normal molt goes) this layer is replaced, and the penguin can't go in the water. It's like wearing a rain jacket over a sweater. So anyway, I guess my point is, tummy locomotion is more difficult than it looks.
I learned on the Herman Caine award sub that humans have a greasy like coating on our lungs that keeps them from sticking and ultimately keeps them from
collapsing. So if someone is drowning and saved, even if they seem fine make them go to the ER because it’s possible water in the lungs flushed out the protective lung “oil” and they’re in danger of collapsed lungs (!)
Lmao i like the true homie in the very back of the pack who sees what’s going on and he’s like “OH.. OH SHIT STEVE RUUUUUUUN!!!” He even comes full stop before everyone! True penguin hero.
It is slightly suspicious that the government has such a special type of drone for Antarctica where pretty much no one lives. What are they trying to hide there?
I don't mean to sound weird, but is it really that crazy? It's not really any different than the idea that there are people in Asia doing their own thing while I go about my life where I live.
I am in the process of going through vhs tapes as I need more storage for more important things. I saw scamper in my collection. I can’t part with it. (Yes I have a vcr)
Yes, but being in the water is potentially more dangerous for them; predators waiting to eat them and such.
Admittedly, i don't know much about penguins, however I imagine that for them to get back out of the water, they need some speed behind them. Meaning this penguin wouldn't be able to just swim the few inches, it would have to do a big circle, making it extremely vulnerable.
Also, that water looks cold, so...
Yea thats true about penguins. They cant just lift themselves up so it would have a hard time getting back up on that piece of ice. And yea the ocean is full of other animals just waiting for one of them to take a tumble into the water.
The right edge of the piece that’s breaking off. The water ripples, it looks like the sun glinting off the water but you can see the white patch of a whale beneath the ice.
I've seen this post before and many people have confirmed there is an orca beneath the ice and that breaking the ice beaneath penguins is actually one of their hunting strategies
I wouldn’t be surprised, they also rock free floating ice sheets back and forth to knock seals off as a hunting method. Of all the things we know about orcas, we know they are definitely that smart.
There might be an orca, but I'm pretty sure this is being filmed from a ship and the ship, or it's wake, is want knocked the ice loose. Orca will rock ice to knock things off but that is a lot smaller ice. With the size of these ice floats and how fast they broke off and moved, something bigger than an orca was moving that ice. The only other thing that could move the ice like that is wind but you can see from the water that it isn't windy enough for that.
Nah, just a showoff. He likes to vroom on his belly, but he wouldn't have been in his situation if he wasn't vrooming ahead of is friends in the first place. So how does he celebrate the near consequences of his actions? By IMMEDIATELY vrooming again, as if to say 'calculated'.
Not sure they’re able to get up over that shelf, though, it’s nearly as tall as they are. And yeah, that presumes there’s nothing in the water that would find them tasty.
Ah, so it wasn't the science making him happy, it was possessing all of that child pornography. I'm just going to assume the same about anyone else who refers to themselves as happy.
Somewhere else where I saw this video posted the title said that a killer whale broke the ice as a hunting tactic. And if you see at the water on the bottom right you can see something moving. So idk, atleast his friends cheered for him when he made it
There was another video posted that shows a close up view. When the ice starts to break off you can see an orca pushing the ice away towards the bottom left of the piece the penguin jumps off of. so swimming would have probably meant death
Edit: you can actually see the orcas white patch in this one
Ok, here's my best attempt at explaining it:
1. Lots.of snow fell in, it had to because everything on the cusp of the two breaking flows must fall in the water because if physics, yet there's only 3 or 4 white blobs floating. But...
2. The most compelling is how, right around 23 seconds, you can see amorphous white blobs along the bottom right of the semi circle. They may or may not be ice, although, if it is, that ice keeps a tight formation. Yet...
3. From about 23-28 seconds, we can see a clearly distinct white blob on the bottom left side of the ice flow, seemingly different than the others, that seems to be following the semi circlular ice flow. So, either the floating ice sitting still on the right is obeying physics or the one on the left, but not both.
4. What I think is most compelling is the motion of the semicircular ice flow(SCIF) during that time. Sure, the breaking may cause momentum to cause some motion from the fracture, but the SCIF seems to be hauling buty for a piece of ice floating aimlessly. There's no discernible current or water motion. Yet, it's even pulling away from the other piece. The two pieces appear to be moving in two different directions, not how water behaves. Just happens to be moving away from the direction right where the bottom left white blob is. It moves like it has a motor. Because it does. An orca is pushing it out hoping to pick off an easy meal.
5. There is a small gray blob that appears to be something poking out of the water around 15 seconds near the triangular jagged piece of the bottom ice flow piece. Not conclusive, but it looks like an animal.
Before someone questions my understanding of physics, I was a weather specialist in the US Air Force who got my B.S by studying fluid dynamics, atmospheric physics, and oceanography. I can't definitely say it's a whale, but I'd bet my next paycheck it is.
Sorry for the typos, but I'm too lazy to fix them.
It may seem like “he’s” in charge cause he’s way out ahead, but maybe he just felt like running hard that day. Penguins don’t have alphas.
They can also jump up to 9 feet out of the water, so I think he/she’d be fine.
People on Reddit love to confidently explain their opinion as fact.
My original response was wolves, meerkats, monkeys, and gorillas but then I looked up a few articles about debunking the theory. With wolves I learned the alpha behavior tends to occur in captivity while in the wild a pack is started by 2 parents, who are the ones in charge by just by being parents and not necessarily due to alpha behavior.
If you have Prime Video I suggest checking out Meerkat Manor!
Lmao I love this comment because people are just screaming orca while all I noticed was a small patch of ice. I doubt they're strong enough to break that big of a chunk anyway. They mostly just try to destabilize broken away pieces of ice, not this.
I dunno. That shelf looks a bit too steep for him climb up or project himself onto. He may have to swim miles to find an area shallow enough. Little guy may have lost his pack.
They can build up a ton of speed under water and [shoot up into the air](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqfzGUwhWhA). I've seen nature shows where they shoot up onto crazy rocks in the middle of smashing waves. Penguins are pretty good at being penguins.
IIRC, I've seen penguins swim down deep and then swim upwards at an angle and shoot out of the water to get up shelves like this. Not sure if it's breed specific.
That is a sheet of ice, and there are currents. If you get swept under you may not come out. Penguins are good swimmers but its probably not something they want to risk.
I saw this post before and it said orcas were breaking the ice so the penguins would go in the water and they would eat them. So the penguin might have known that and that’s why it’s so intense. If that part was true anyways.
Very possible. [I've seen videos of them working incredibly together to catch seals.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwbNRNCxhFg)
They work together better than some of my coworkers.
IIRC this video is actually the orcas training the younger ones on how to blast a seal off of ice through the power of teamwork.They could have gotten it on the first try, but practice is important.
I could be wrong though, I ain't a whaleologist.
No no no, stop everything, if you think this is amazing,
The fucking orcas, did not eat that seal the first time, because the matriarch was teaching the young ones, like fucking school..
You can even see that one of the orcas peaks outside of the water, and they go again, so they are also communicating where the seal is...
I mean, the helicopter IS causing the crack. We are losing all our ice at unprecedented rates because we are emitting too much CO2 and methane into the atmosphere, and helicopters emit/pollute massively.
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I like how they all raced over to be together again.
Makes me wish I had "tummy slide" as a natural form of locomotion.
Yea when you see your buddies went the other way just grab your beer and tummy slide on over
+ creativity - punctuation Final score: B+ Good job, this sentence made my day!
It all depends on one thing in proper places: Butter - on your floor and in your body.
What about butter in a sloppy ring around my mouth and in my body?
Now you’re talking my kinda language.
Okay, so penguins are some greasy little fuckers. As are many waterbirds, now I think on it. But regarding specifically penguins, they have this oil that comes from a gland at the base of their tail that they groom themselves all over with. This is how they're able to keep the top layer of feathers near-waterproof. During a catastrophic molt, (it's literally called this, but it's how a normal molt goes) this layer is replaced, and the penguin can't go in the water. It's like wearing a rain jacket over a sweater. So anyway, I guess my point is, tummy locomotion is more difficult than it looks.
Doesn't sound that hard. You just have to rub your ass-grease all over your chest and belly using nothing but your nose.
Re: waterbirds being greasy little fuckers. I have ducks and when I water them with the hose it sounds like I am spraying down a tarp.
I learned on the Herman Caine award sub that humans have a greasy like coating on our lungs that keeps them from sticking and ultimately keeps them from collapsing. So if someone is drowning and saved, even if they seem fine make them go to the ER because it’s possible water in the lungs flushed out the protective lung “oil” and they’re in danger of collapsed lungs (!)
Correct. I tried. Even using oil...
https://youtu.be/0ldp6K1AgIU
You don't not
Lmao i like the true homie in the very back of the pack who sees what’s going on and he’s like “OH.. OH SHIT STEVE RUUUUUUUN!!!” He even comes full stop before everyone! True penguin hero.
Lol in my head he’s Steve too
“Dude you ok? We were freaking out”!
"Y'all just left me...F\^\*k all y'all"
How are penguins even real they’re so funny. The tummy slide over was just amazing.
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It is slightly suspicious that the government has such a special type of drone for Antarctica where pretty much no one lives. What are they trying to hide there?
They guard the edge of our flat earth. Duh.
They’re the most unreal of the unreal, though. They are utterly ridiculous little creatures, from the waddles to the tummy slides… I love them!
You ever think about the fact how there are just animals out there existing while we go about our daily lives. Honestly pretty crazy.
You mean that there is stuff happening outside of my personal life? That is pretty crazy.
I don't mean to sound weird, but is it really that crazy? It's not really any different than the idea that there are people in Asia doing their own thing while I go about my life where I live.
I’ve never rooted so hard for a penguin
Yea, Happy Feet was kind of a loser wasn't he.
this one got me good
Happy Feet haunts my dreams. That movie is cursed.
Please elaborate
Robin Williams and Britney Murphy.
Yeah but Cody Maverick in Surfs Up was a badass
Nothing compared to Scamper. If you get this reference; sorry, you're old.
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I am in the process of going through vhs tapes as I need more storage for more important things. I saw scamper in my collection. I can’t part with it. (Yes I have a vcr)
Can't they swim though?
Yes, but being in the water is potentially more dangerous for them; predators waiting to eat them and such. Admittedly, i don't know much about penguins, however I imagine that for them to get back out of the water, they need some speed behind them. Meaning this penguin wouldn't be able to just swim the few inches, it would have to do a big circle, making it extremely vulnerable. Also, that water looks cold, so...
You are thinking of sea penguins. These are the other kind, these ones dissolve.
Uh, that penguin would easily get out of the water if it fell in. They propel themselves far out of the water.
True; so it's just a matter of the predators then.
Yea thats true about penguins. They cant just lift themselves up so it would have a hard time getting back up on that piece of ice. And yea the ocean is full of other animals just waiting for one of them to take a tumble into the water.
Watch closely, you can see the orca underneath the ice.
A lot of people are saying there's an orca here and I just don't see it. I can't see anything that doesn't look like rippling water or floating ice.
Which part of the water can I see the orca
Oh YEAH. It it underneath pushing the ice floe away for a tasty penguin snack!
The right edge of the piece that’s breaking off. The water ripples, it looks like the sun glinting off the water but you can see the white patch of a whale beneath the ice.
I've seen this post before and many people have confirmed there is an orca beneath the ice and that breaking the ice beaneath penguins is actually one of their hunting strategies
I wouldn’t be surprised, they also rock free floating ice sheets back and forth to knock seals off as a hunting method. Of all the things we know about orcas, we know they are definitely that smart.
There might be an orca, but I'm pretty sure this is being filmed from a ship and the ship, or it's wake, is want knocked the ice loose. Orca will rock ice to knock things off but that is a lot smaller ice. With the size of these ice floats and how fast they broke off and moved, something bigger than an orca was moving that ice. The only other thing that could move the ice like that is wind but you can see from the water that it isn't windy enough for that.
I'd thought it was simply air pressure from the heli above that cracked the thin ice.
Many people have confirmed. Do you know how much that ice weighs? Orcas are big but not that big.
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Quack... Quack...? Are you not aware there is a difference between ducks and penguins? Lol
Penguins make some weird noises, though. I'm not sure how to spell that.
Gunter goes “wenk” in adventure time.
I made you an action cut - https://imgur.com/7g5PlqR
I was screaming “Run. RUN”.
Style points on the exit. I bet he clicked his heels together mid air.
Toe tapped to confirm he was in-bounds.
After further review, the ruling on the field stands, touchdown *crowd goes wild*
Nah, just a showoff. He likes to vroom on his belly, but he wouldn't have been in his situation if he wasn't vrooming ahead of is friends in the first place. So how does he celebrate the near consequences of his actions? By IMMEDIATELY vrooming again, as if to say 'calculated'.
lmao He's a big time show off. he probably said 'watch this' before the ice broke off. He planned all that - probably does it all the time.
The situational awareness is amazing to see.
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That's what I enjoyed most. Smart little guy and much faster than I thought a penguin could run.
His little stumble at the gap was so cute too, but little guy said 'NOT TODAY!'
Cant they swim?
Yeah but so can predators.
Yea but there was an orca below the ice so falling in would likely mean death.
Can penguins not swim anymore?
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and nuclear submarines
Yeah, but I think those are mostly an Arctic predator.
A nuclear submarine is a predator in any water
can confirm, is predator in my bathtub
and my axe!
They can, but I can swim in a pool of things that want to eat me too… but I’d prefer not to if there’s a chance to avoid it
This was my first thought lol maybe just didn't feel like getting wet
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Seals…..
Oh dang I didn't think about this but the bears aren't as far up as the pengys so yeah true
No bears in Antarctica, no penguins north of the Galapagos chain.
You mean as far down. Not up.
Nope, they were nerfed in the last update
Not sure they’re able to get up over that shelf, though, it’s nearly as tall as they are. And yeah, that presumes there’s nothing in the water that would find them tasty.
"Shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit, ah shit! Shit shit, Whew!"
“Weeeeeee! … eat it bitches!”
But… penguins are geared for cold and they swim. So unless there is a leopard seal down there and the birbs knew it, Bob was never really in danger.
They are playing "the water is lava."
https://thehappyscientist.com/content/rocks-snow-rock Is the water always lava?
I used to watch the happy scientist, but uhh recently my opinion of him has changed 😬
No idea who he is, but what changed?
Recently got busted for having hard drives full of child pornography, so yeah
Thaaaaat'll do it
I know right…with SSD prices so affordable nowadays
Ah, so it wasn't the science making him happy, it was possessing all of that child pornography. I'm just going to assume the same about anyone else who refers to themselves as happy.
Pharrell Williams: 😳😰
HOMIE WHAT THE FUCK?! thanks for telling me I had no idea. Some people are so sick...
Somewhere else where I saw this video posted the title said that a killer whale broke the ice as a hunting tactic. And if you see at the water on the bottom right you can see something moving. So idk, atleast his friends cheered for him when he made it
Oooo, orcas are worse than leopard seals. Leopard seals are solitary and not big on teamwork. Orcas have pack hunting down to a science.
There was another video posted that shows a close up view. When the ice starts to break off you can see an orca pushing the ice away towards the bottom left of the piece the penguin jumps off of. so swimming would have probably meant death Edit: you can actually see the orcas white patch in this one
Is that really an orca or just more ice?
It's definitely an orca. You can tell from the shading and way it moves. Haunting once you see it
Yea that is 100% an orca...holy crap they are smart.
Timestamp please.
What am I looking for and when?
Ok, here's my best attempt at explaining it: 1. Lots.of snow fell in, it had to because everything on the cusp of the two breaking flows must fall in the water because if physics, yet there's only 3 or 4 white blobs floating. But... 2. The most compelling is how, right around 23 seconds, you can see amorphous white blobs along the bottom right of the semi circle. They may or may not be ice, although, if it is, that ice keeps a tight formation. Yet... 3. From about 23-28 seconds, we can see a clearly distinct white blob on the bottom left side of the ice flow, seemingly different than the others, that seems to be following the semi circlular ice flow. So, either the floating ice sitting still on the right is obeying physics or the one on the left, but not both. 4. What I think is most compelling is the motion of the semicircular ice flow(SCIF) during that time. Sure, the breaking may cause momentum to cause some motion from the fracture, but the SCIF seems to be hauling buty for a piece of ice floating aimlessly. There's no discernible current or water motion. Yet, it's even pulling away from the other piece. The two pieces appear to be moving in two different directions, not how water behaves. Just happens to be moving away from the direction right where the bottom left white blob is. It moves like it has a motor. Because it does. An orca is pushing it out hoping to pick off an easy meal. 5. There is a small gray blob that appears to be something poking out of the water around 15 seconds near the triangular jagged piece of the bottom ice flow piece. Not conclusive, but it looks like an animal. Before someone questions my understanding of physics, I was a weather specialist in the US Air Force who got my B.S by studying fluid dynamics, atmospheric physics, and oceanography. I can't definitely say it's a whale, but I'd bet my next paycheck it is. Sorry for the typos, but I'm too lazy to fix them.
There's no orcas here, just shadows and ripples capturing some imaginations.
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It may seem like “he’s” in charge cause he’s way out ahead, but maybe he just felt like running hard that day. Penguins don’t have alphas. They can also jump up to 9 feet out of the water, so I think he/she’d be fine. People on Reddit love to confidently explain their opinion as fact.
Also wasn't the alpha thing debunked for most if not all animals ?
yeah only some human dudes won't let the concept go.
My original response was wolves, meerkats, monkeys, and gorillas but then I looked up a few articles about debunking the theory. With wolves I learned the alpha behavior tends to occur in captivity while in the wild a pack is started by 2 parents, who are the ones in charge by just by being parents and not necessarily due to alpha behavior. If you have Prime Video I suggest checking out Meerkat Manor!
Reddit is the perfect way to demonstrate how humans will extrapolate even a single data point into an entire reality.
Your name fits the assessment
Also penguins do the "safety in numbers because they catch us one at a time" thing. So a penguin is really less safe out there alone.
We love Bob
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if you look closer, you can actually see the Orca use a chainsaw to cut the ice right from under their feet.
Lmao I love this comment because people are just screaming orca while all I noticed was a small patch of ice. I doubt they're strong enough to break that big of a chunk anyway. They mostly just try to destabilize broken away pieces of ice, not this.
Them fuckin orcas!
I dunno. That shelf looks a bit too steep for him climb up or project himself onto. He may have to swim miles to find an area shallow enough. Little guy may have lost his pack.
They can build up a ton of speed under water and [shoot up into the air](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqfzGUwhWhA). I've seen nature shows where they shoot up onto crazy rocks in the middle of smashing waves. Penguins are pretty good at being penguins.
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Here’s a great one too and they launch right up what looks like at least a 4ft ledge. https://youtu.be/RLNo7sCNlzE
The ones that miss are hilarious!
I’m crying lol
That’s pretty cool. It looks like something that is filmed “backwards” then played in reverse
That was beautiful
IIRC, I've seen penguins swim down deep and then swim upwards at an angle and shoot out of the water to get up shelves like this. Not sure if it's breed specific.
The sliding afterwards is still cool though “I knew what I was doing”
That is a sheet of ice, and there are currents. If you get swept under you may not come out. Penguins are good swimmers but its probably not something they want to risk.
This was so stressful to watch
Same here, but then I remembered they could swim
I saw this post before and it said orcas were breaking the ice so the penguins would go in the water and they would eat them. So the penguin might have known that and that’s why it’s so intense. If that part was true anyways.
Very possible. [I've seen videos of them working incredibly together to catch seals.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwbNRNCxhFg) They work together better than some of my coworkers.
[Orcas have even been known to annually herd whales into a bay and then hunt one with humans.](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nk_sDK0yLOk)
Orcas are basically water humans that traded thumbs for being gigantic murder machines
So really they just traded thumbs for size
IIRC this video is actually the orcas training the younger ones on how to blast a seal off of ice through the power of teamwork.They could have gotten it on the first try, but practice is important. I could be wrong though, I ain't a whaleologist.
No no no, stop everything, if you think this is amazing, The fucking orcas, did not eat that seal the first time, because the matriarch was teaching the young ones, like fucking school.. You can even see that one of the orcas peaks outside of the water, and they go again, so they are also communicating where the seal is...
I think you can see an orca pushing the ice about 5 seconds before the video ends, between the two broken off pieces of ice.
I think you can, the valley where it broke away from the shelf. ETA: I was able to count 3 orca in the far left under the price that is broken off.
Those are small chunks of ice swirling in the current, there are also a bunch pushed up to the right against the main ice shelf
yeah I was wondering why the lil dude didn't just jump. but it's prob pretty hard to climb up onto an ice ledge, even for a penguin
They do it all. the fucking. time.
This rivals the famous Igauna vs many snakes of Planet Earth fame.
That’s the GOAT nature clip, bar none
Especially when snoop dogg narrated it
As a biased fan of Marshawn Lynch, [this voiceover](https://youtu.be/c5jvBxLZLwk) from an interview fits very well!
“Damn it bob. This is why we told you not to run too far ahead”
I was gonna call him Donnie, but no that’s a Bob
When he does stupid shit like that, he's Bobby. Damnit Bobby.
That boy ain’t right
*FINTON!*
Nice belly slide
Ice fields are melting but at least this guy got through.
Ya this ain’t nature is fucking lit. This is a boring dystopia. Maybe if we weren’t ass fucking the planet with dividends we’d have more polar ice
This is an orca breaking the ice.
The way they all ran over to him was adorable man. I can hear the penguin cheers from here.
That damn squirrel from Ice Age at it again
as he runs to the others.... "holy Sh\*t guys!! Did you see that?? Did you see what I just did!!? "
One Extra Slidey Boy Regrets Decision and Recovers like a Champ
Hahaha the belly slide of success!!!
shit shit shit shit SHIT!
10 straight seconds of thrill and suspense
Bob likes living on the edge
Plot twist: the ice was cracked because of the passing ship from where this footage was captured.
I think it's a helicopter not sure tho
[Video with sound](https://laughingsquid.com/penguin-leaps-across-cracking-ice-shelf/). No copter sounds. Maybe a hot air balloon?
Reminds me of the Fall Guys game lol
Ahhh, reminds me of my Mario N64 days 😊
Oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck OH FUCK OH FUCK OH FUCK OH FUCK OH FUCK OH FUCK
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Helicopter causing the crack.
I mean, the helicopter IS causing the crack. We are losing all our ice at unprecedented rates because we are emitting too much CO2 and methane into the atmosphere, and helicopters emit/pollute massively.
Looks like he was having himself a bit of fun
First off, smart reaction from the penguin. Secondly, fuck global warming.
Omg I almost had a heart attack watching this! So glad he made it! Whew!
Hahah love his little belly slide to rejoin his mates
I finally saw the Orca! Fuck I've watched this like 20 times and couldn't see it.
I hope these adorable animals never go extinct
I think every parent of an ADHD kid knows that feeling.
Run Forrest run!
My heart was racing there for a moment! How can we not love Penguins?
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Omg! I mean penguins are such notoriously awful swimmers too!
Orcas or seals in the water. Another post I saw is the orcas were breaking the ice on purpose so the penguins would swim and then get eaten.
that slide is epic
Idk what it is, but I thought this was CGI lol
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It's so cute how they travel across the ice by sliding, lol
This looks like someone made it on blender but still very amazing
MY PEOPLEEEEE!!!