Tag: baby penguin

New Baby Penguin First Encounter Footage from Antarctica

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Cute Little Baby Penguin Chick

Mother feeding baby penguin
Mother Gentoo Penguin Feeds Baby

The most popular comment right now on my baby penguin youtube video is an upset viewer comment saying… “I can’t believe you &^%$ stopped filming!”

A lot of the traffic I’m getting right now is traffic from my popular baby penguin video filmed on a trip to Antarctica where I met a baby penguin that has never met humans.  The baby penguin video has gone viral.  My encounter was surreal.  I was given the advice to not approach the penguins, but it was ok for them to approach me.  Additional advice was to kneel to as to avoid looking tall and intimidating.  I took the advice to the next level and laid on the rocky shore.  What ensued was an amazing encounter of man and bird.  We calmly spent an hour on the beach interacting with our new found friends.

Here’s a video where my baby penguin friends get comfortable and jump on my stomach.  Very close up footage of the baby Gentoo penguins.

Curious little baby penguins

These cute little guys were curious.  They pick at my clothes and in waiting for their parents to bring back food they are looking for anything they can get.  This little one jumps on my legs.  In the background on the water you can see a research vessel.  As well you can see the older penguins waddling around.

Chubby little gentoo penguin jumps on my legs. Sorry it’s only 23 seconds.

In this next video you get a more holistic view of the beach.  There’s Paul and Ricardo, with Michael off further in the distance having his own encounter.

Baby Penguins just chillin on the beach… not threatened at all. Just curious.

I hope you enjoyed the new footage.

Viral Baby Penguin Travel Video Goes Mainstream

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In my previous post, I shared how my traffic on my baby penguin video started to take off.  I was getting requests from various people asking them if they could use my video, and others looking for rights.  Analyzing the traffic was fascinating.  The 15 minutes of fame as one commenter mentioned continues as the baby penguin video really takes off.  I knew this was going big when I was getting requests from ABC Good Morning America and Yahoo.  What I didn’t know was when it would end and I sure wanted to make sure I didn’t do anything to make it end early.

It was this morning, that I got a tweet from someone saying… they came across my video not only on Yahoo, but on their home page!!  I was super excited.

One thing I’ve been careful about it making sure to have them include this, my travel blog http://travelingepic.com in the credits.  I’ve been traveling for years, and have visited over 120 countries since 2008.  Many recent comments ask how that’s even possible.  Five years ago I left Microsoft to pursue more travel.  I was traveling once a quarter or so during that time mostly to Europe or Australia, and about once a year to Asia, but I was very anxious to see South America and more of Asia.  I left Microsoft and started at Quest Software where during the first two years there I was on the road over 200 days and travelled outside the U.S. during about half that time.  As a software evangelist, I would speak at over one hundred conferences of my choosing including nearby SharePoint user group communities. (SharePoint is the product I have built expertise in, and have been working with nearly 12 years.  Hence the name of my technical blog http://sharepointjoel.com, rated the best SharePoint blog recently by the community.)

The requests keep coming in.  Being on the homepage of Yahoo this morning was huge for me.  I was really hoping that the ABC World News Diane Sawyer would go through, but I’m sure some more important news bumped the penguin video.

I’ve been working on a new Video that I hope you’ll enjoy.  If you like Baby Penguins, you might like Wild Baby Monkeys from Bali.  Would you guess he jumps on my head?

This cute baby monkey surprised me by jumping on me and trying to take my camera

Here are a few other places where my baby penguin video has been showing up…

Serious Mainstream Press: CBS, ABC, FOX

including a few places in the UK.  ITN actually added music and voice over, the stories themselves have been getting richer and richer.

I’m really pulling for the Ellen Show or Tosh.0, if they are listening.  I’m in love to tell my story!