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But what is really amazing, because of this deepness here, Emperor penguins can go down more than 500 meters and they can hold their breath for 23 minutes.
Magellanic penguins, the ones that I work on, they can dive to about 90 meters and they can stay down for about 4.6 minutes.
So penguins are amazing athletes.
The other thing is, I've never met anybody that really doesn't say that they like penguins.
I thought I was going to study the social behavior of Galapagos penguins, but you already know penguins are rare.
These are the rarest penguins in the world.
When I counted penguins for the first time and tried to do a census, we just counted all the individual beaks that we could around all these islands.
We counted around 2,000, so I don't know how many penguins there really are, but I know I can count 2,000.
So we have a quarter of the penguins that we did 40 years ago.
That's a penguin braying to tell you that it's important to pay attention to penguins.
I fell in love with penguins, and it certainly has changed the rest of my life.
You've heard about these El Ninos, but this is the extreme that penguins all over the world have to adapt to.
So it's a real desert for not only for the penguins and the sea lions and the marine iguanas ... things die when there's no food.
But we didn't even know that that affected the Galapagos when I went to study penguins.
And you can imagine being on an island hoping you're going to see penguins, and you're in the middle of an El Nino event and there are no penguins.
So the oceans don't always act together; they act differently, but that is the kind of variation that penguins have to live with, and it's not easy.
So when I went to study the Magellanic penguins, I didn't have any problems.
This is a picture at Punta Tombo in February showing all the penguins along the beach.
Fortunately, nobody has harvested any penguins and we're getting over 100,000 tourists a year to see them.
And also, we know that it's not only Galapagos penguins that are in trouble, but Magellanics and many other species of penguins.
And so we have started a global penguin society to try to focus on the real plight of penguins.
This is one of the plights of penguins: oil pollution.
Penguins don't like oil and they don't like to swim through oil.
But, in fact, when we went to Argentina, penguins were often found totally covered in oil.
You can't find oiled penguins in Argentina.
So we ended up spending nine years convincing the government that there were lots of oiled penguins.
In some years, like this year, we found more than 80 percent of the adult penguins dead on the beach were covered in oil.
So what we're seeing now is very few penguins are oiled.
Why are there even these penguins oiled?
So now I want to show you that penguins are affected.
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