【英國】【紀錄片】自然世界：企鵝郵局 Natural World - Penguin Post Office

每個夏天 數十萬名遊客 來到不可思議的英國島嶼 在安塔克特島 他們來這裡是因為 GEN2蜘蛛的奇蹟 還有一間郵局 他們可以從那裡寄信回家 郵局由一支專業團隊負責 在下個四個月 他們會成為這些奇怪的蜘蛛的鄰居 但蜘蛛的故事並非總是一張圖片 戰爭中 婚姻爭鬥中 日光盜竊是一種習慣 成長蜘蛛必須克服許多困難 如果他們能活到成年 這個獨特的背景 讓人們和蜘蛛人 親吻親吻 提供了世界上最愛的蜘蛛人 歡迎來到蜘蛛郵局 是早上九月 夏天在安塔克特島 約三千名GEN2蜘蛛人 從深海釣魚的激烈指令 回到駱駝港的養殖地 GEN2蜘蛛人急於建立養殖地 長時間和溫暖的氣溫 鼓勵蜘蛛人開始尋找夥伴 飼養和育幼 很多人必須走三公里 尋找適合的養殖地 一趟艱難的旅程 對於一隻大腿和短腿的蜘蛛人 但這蜘蛛人的殖民園 特別不一般 他們每年都選擇 和駱駝港的其他夏天住戶 一起搬遷 人們 安塔克特島文化基金會的 已經到達駱駝港 準備四週年旅遊 今年 島嶼基地周圍的水 依然是凍結的 就像蜘蛛人一樣 他們走出海底 他們的目的地 是一個遠距離的英國出口 有著奇妙的歷史 今天 是安塔克特島最受歡迎的遊客遊樂園 大門就是蜘蛛人 還有蜘蛛人的郵局 歡迎來到駱駝港 在這個島嶼上 這座建築物是世界上 最南部的公共郵局 一間慈善禮物店 支援安塔克特島文化基金會的 還有一間 為駱駝港的奇妙歷史 1943年 英國建立了 高空研究中心 他們的工作 證明瞭高頻通訊的 基地也擔任了 英國的地區訴訟 在安塔克特島上 一旦開放 船隻經過 就會寄信回英國 來自駱駝港的居民 基地一直是 由1943年 直到1959年 被科學家關閉 工人工作了 33個月 包括了兩段 非常長的激烈冬天 當船隻沒有來訪 但有一個景點 船隻不會享受的 就是珍珠鳥 牠們在科學家離開後 而過去50年 由於安塔克特島的氣候變暖 雪開始融化 早期的季節 讓珍珠鳥 隔離在岩石之間 但今年 有更多的雪 船隊 正在努力 清理船隻的宿舍 他們很快就會迎接 數千名遊客 從船隻經過 到博物館、贈品店 和船隻辦公室 對我來說 這是一個 讓我融入這個環境 我可以在這裡 度過一整個季節 我可以看到 從11月到3月 很多東西都在改變 像是蝴蝶 牠們出生 蝴蝶出生 雞出生 蝴蝶出生 現在,鳥鳥開始 牠們的飼養儀式 在海洋公園的下面 一對鳥鳥 爭取了牠們的平時的住址 並重新證明瞭牠們的關係 用頭吻 在船隻辦公室 另一對鳥鳥 也重新認識了 在整個島嶼上 鳥鳥正在準備生育 今年,我們會特別忙碌 在駱克萊港 十個工作人員 會來和去 辦公室的核心隊伍 包含了四位女性 領導的Helen 她是六年前來這裡的 我第一次來這裡 是因為 我一直想來這裡 我喜歡去野生的地方 我喜歡這裡的寬敞 我們住營裡 沒有溫泉 很基本 在家裡的人 都很驚訝 有這個機會 他們覺得很棒 他們覺得很瘋狂 因為我經常覺得寒冷 我會在這裡放著冷凍 但是一開始,你無法置信它 無論你怎麼看,都會看到蝙蝠 所以需要一段時間才能適應 然後當你遇到蝙蝠的時候 它們就變成了一種不斷的娛樂 他們每天的行程,進出和活動 在森林裡的活動,真的很好 回到海邊 有些蝙蝠從海邊帶來了石頭 在安塔克特克,沒有樹木 所以,而不是用樹枝或葉子來建造森林 這些蝙蝠從小石頭裡得到森林 選出最好的,並帶到森林的盡頭 就像是給一個愛人的蝙蝠 一盒巧克力 夏天,駱克萊港的日光 幾乎是24小時 海流終於開始崩潰 外面的郵局 聯合郵局的兩人 正在忙著建造他們的森林 在船舶後面 這對蝙蝠在比賽的前半段 他們找到了一棵老森林 已經沒有雪了 過去一週 他們在加裝新的石頭 放在一起 以製造好的泥土 從雪和雨中 乾森林是必須的 如果這些蝙蝠能成功 在養育小孩 蝙蝠強烈保護 他們的一堆石頭 因為森林裡的森林 非常緊密 鄰近的爭議 不斷爆裂 一棵森林 不見了幾秒 可能會被偷走 一艘大船 到達了大海 從世界各地的遊客 都付出了千萬美元 來到這裡 來到安塔克 對很多人來說 是一種生命中的夢想 這是他們的夢想 很多人在船上 都算是年輕人 他們說 他們想要做這件事一輩子 來到沙灘 有機會拍攝近鏡的蝙蝠 只要每個人都觀察 黃金規則 不要靠近五公尺 以避免打擾蝙蝠 在郵局裡 有很多蝙蝠圖案的 紀念品和禮物 賣相如此出眾 有些人 花了超過一千美元 買一件蝙蝠服裝 但最重要的是 每個人都欣賞 一張蝙蝠郵券 在安塔克 找到一小部分的英國 藏在這裡 真是太好了 太好了 給人的驚喜是 他們可以離家那麼遠 在很多方面 但卻有這個 很熟悉的 蝙蝠郵券的概念 還有機會 和他們交流 我們在寫給女兒們 我不知道你打算說什麼 我們在寫給女兒們 我只是想告訴她們 這裡真是太棒了 對我的親愛的家庭來說 很難形容這個 太棒的地方 我真的在 世界的盡頭 雪 風 蝙蝠 全都在 我們在做什麼好事 這張郵券 是給我們自己的 幾乎一切 都有蝙蝠圖案 包括特別設計的標籤 帶領著 世界各地的郵券 並不意外地 蝙蝠園 周圍的郵局 給人的印象很深 你只能看它們幾個小時 因為它們的古董 實在太可愛了 我想我的鏡頭裡 有差不多800張蝙蝠圖 我不想刪除一張 但儘管他們的漫畫風格 蝙蝠並不總是 看起來如此無辜 有半個機會 蝙蝠會欺騙牠們的夥伴 回到郵局 一位女性 回到她的蝙蝠園 找到她的夥伴 卻遭到不利 另一位女性 取了她的位置 卻不肯站起來 她激烈地攻擊 不歡迎的女性 卻讓不信任的男性 看著她 最後 她回到郵局 欺騙了她的夥伴 他卻把她的頭 插進了蝙蝠園裡 蝙蝠是一羣 極其浪漫的戀人 經常在夏天相約 男性親吻了他的夥伴 似乎想騷擾她 如果女性承受了他的魅力 她就躺下來 男性就扶著她 對於男性來說 這是一項 要保持平衡的行為 當時正好 夫妻們 將自己的私人物品 揉成一團 讓男性 把蝙蝠交給女性 通過一種叫做 蝙蝠吻的過程 如果蝙蝠成功了 蝙蝠會在兩個月的時間內 但是 事情並不總是 按照計劃進行 現在已經是 11月的最後一天 蝙蝠夫妻 正在打算 建立自己的蝙蝠園 卻是第一隻 坐在蝙蝠園裡的 幾天後 蝙蝠也出現在 蝙蝠園的蝙蝠園 牠們在那裡 吸收了 蝙蝠的汁液 雖然蝙蝠的血液 已經迅速地 被蝙蝠吸收了 蝙蝠的腦海 而蝙蝠的腦海 吸收了 蝙蝠的血液 蝙蝠的腦海 在下個月間,牠們會不斷地轉動雞蛋,以確保溫度均勻地分配, 給予成長的雞蛋最佳的生存機會。 現在牠們坐在雞蛋上, 郵局的鳥鳥面臨著保護牠們從虐待者的挑戰。 Skewers are formidable adversaries. They launch surprise attacks, dive-bombing penguins from the air. Despite brave attempts to drive this skewer away, repeated aerial assaults have caused an egg to be dislodged from the nest of a panicking penguin. The skewer gets its reward. Unlucky parents who lose their eggs to skewers will have to wait another year for their next chance to raise young. During this period of incubating eggs, one adult is always pinned to the nest, keeping eggs warm and defending them from predators, whilst the other is away fishing. This leaves the stones they've made such a concerted effort to gather, easy pickings for thieving penguins. At the boat shed, stone pilfering is rife, and one sly penguin is proving particularly adept at burgling the neighbors. Running through the colony, stone after stone is pinched and taken back to the nest. All penguins have criminal tendencies, and over the course of the breeding season, thousands of pebbles will be stolen and re-stolen in the competition to keep up the largest family pile. It's now the height of summer, and the peak of the Antarctic tourist season. The post office penguins don't appear the least bothered by the presence of people, and seem perfectly happy to pose for photographs. With an average of two ship visits a day, there are a lot of postcards to be processed. But for Christy, who is taking a sabbatical from teaching at the University of Washington, the chance to work in Antarctica is a welcome break from academia. So we hand-frank everything here at Port La Croix. This year we'll do probably between 60,000 and 80,000 postcards by hand like this. It's kind of relaxing. It's probably one of my favorite things that I do here actually. People write about penguins. They're always writing about penguins. And so many people send messages of love,really. You know,just love to their family and their friends. I think that's because this place really is romantic in a very wild kind of way. And that's what people are trying to capture. And they only have a couple of lines on a postcard. And so they'll often just say things like, this is magical,you know,and it's a dream come true. And it's a once-in-a-lifetime experience. And I agree with them fully. It is pretty magical here. It's not just the post office and penguins that draw people to this region. The Antarctic Peninsula is scenically by far the most dramatic region of the continent. And it also provides a rich diversity of wildlife. The peninsula is an extension of the South American Andes, forming a coastal spine of mountains whose jagged peaks rise out of the ocean. This otherworldly landscape of glaciers and ice casts a spell on all of those that have the fortune to visit. Living in the Antarctic is really hard to describe. The colours here, it's just hues of blue and grey and white, and very bright even on a dull day. You hear the waves on the beach, or you hear the calls of the birds, or the sounds of the weather, the snow or the hail. It's just the nearest thing I could imagine to being on another planet, on our planet. It's the end of December, and over the past 24 hours, the first Gentoo chick on the island, with the aid of a sharp little egg tooth on the tip of its beak, has been slowly breaking free of its egg. Once hatched, weighing about 80 grams, this vulnerable chick is born blind to the world. Emerging from the egg has been an exhausting process, and the chick barely has the strength to hold up its head. With just a thin layer of down, the chick has no means of regulating heat, so for the next two weeks, it will be completely reliant on its parents to provide warmth. Seconds after hatching, the chick instinctively makes repeated begging calls to be fed, which the parent answers by regurgitating food from its stomach. With up to three days between the first and second hatching, the chance to feed and gain valuable weight gives the first born a considerable head start over its sibling in the race for survival. Now there's hungry mouths to feed. Parent penguins take it in turns to go on day-long fishing trips that can take them as far as 15 kilometers from the colony. But with super streamlined bodies and immensely powerful flippers, these journeys are effortless, as they literally fly through water. Forage dives lasting up to three minutes can take them to depths exceeding 200 meters. They reach speeds in excess of 30 kilometers an hour, making them the fastest swimming birds on earth. The penguin's main quarry is krill, small crustaceans that form immense swarms and underpin all life in the Antarctic. Within a week of the first hatching, most of the other eggs on the island have hatched, and the majority of nests have two chicks, demanding round-the-clock attention. Because the summer season is so short, the chicks need to grow fast to survive the cold months ahead, so in just three weeks, they're likely to quadruple in size. Competition between chicks is fierce, and if food becomes scarce, the parents will favor the strongest chick, leaving the weaker one to perish. At this stage of their development, the chicks are vulnerable to attack from skewers, and the penguin adults are on high alert. Penguin chicks are now a prized source of food for the skewers, and hunting intensifies. The skewer is a dogged opponent, continually surveying the colony for the chance of a quick kill. For this unlucky chick, it's a gruesome end, as the skewer attempts to swallow it whole. It's now mid-January, and the chicks are quickly growing. Too big to sit under the parent, they're starting to discover there's a world beyond the nest. Down behind the boat shed, this plucky little fellow, still a couple of months from learning the true purpose of flippers, is taking his first uncertain steps towards independence. Soon,the chick is given a very valuable lesson. Don't annoy the neighbors. For now,chicks won't dare venture far from the nest. Even the shortest excursion provides plenty of opportunity to practice the tricky art of rock climbing. Food is still by far the biggest preoccupation, but instead of just being fed on demand, the chicks are now being made to work for it. The parent,forcing its chicks to chase for a feed, encourages competition, where the strongest and most determined gets fed first. Food chasing also helps the chicks build up strength in preparation for the time when they'll need to fend for themselves. By adulthood, penguins become such fast runners that over short distances, they can outrun a human. A strong wind has brought blizzard conditions to Port La Croix, but the rough weather hasn't deterred the tourists who've taken refuge in the penguin post office to buy penguin paraphernalia and send postcards home. I wrote a postcard to ourself and I said that 暴風雪中登陸 in Chinese which means we landed here in blizzard so best wishes from the end of the world. That's all. Dear Dad, riding this car in the great south land, Antarctica, freezing conditions, penguins, snowing, rough seas, unbelievable and spectacular scenery. The penguins are just completely soaking it all up, loving this weather, so it really provides perspective. They are adapted to be here and we are not. As the weeks go by, curiosity and the strong urge to explore is taking the chicks further and further from the nest. As they run the gauntlet of the colony and enter neighboring territories, the chicks are repeatedly bullied and harassed. One chick has fallen victim to a vicious assault. Although it's been bloodied and is now severely weakened, the adult's attack is unrelenting. This distressing behavior is rarely witnessed, so we can only speculate why it's occurred. Perhaps it shows the extreme lengths the penguins will go to in order to defend their territory. The dead chick's sibling returns and lays its head down on the corpse, as if mourning the loss of its companion. It's now the beginning of February and with the tourist season still in full swing, the chicks are starting to gang together in nursery groups called creches. The chicks need to stick together because their parents are now spending long periods at sea foraging for food. The chicks now have a very healthy appetite and the parents have to work hard to meet the ever-growing demand. But what goes in one end comes out the other. I do love the penguins, but it is not all... they poop a lot. And with so many pooping chicks on the loose, it's a constant battle for the post office workers. Living with the penguins does cause us some challenges. The smell and the mess, the penguins are constantly pooping everywhere. We have a path, a rocky path that leads up to the base, and all our passengers, all the visitors walk up this path. We have to keep that clean so that not too much gets walked into the base. So every morning, we collect buckets of seawater from the sea and scrub the rocks clean. We don't honestly really notice the smell, but everybody else does, so it can be quite funny when you're in the post office and one of the passengers will say, 'How do you cope with the smell of the penguins?' And the first thought that goes through your mind is, 'I can't really smell the penguins.' And I think we absorb their smell too, so we all smell together come the end of the season. Just like lazy teenagers, the chicks are quite happy to sit around while all the work's being done. It's late February, and the chicks are beginning to look a bit like punks with Mohican hairdos. They are molting, quickly losing their downy baby fluff for adult plumage. Soon, the chicks will be indistinguishable from their parents, and as winter approaches, it won't be long before they are ready to enter the water. The chicks are also beginning to congregate in much bigger groups. Ganging together provides safety in numbers, making them far less vulnerable to predation. A skewer chances its luck. The chicks flee, but continue to stick together in tight formation. Not deterred, the skewer persists, harrassing the chicks on the off chance it will be able to pick off a weak one. But as the chase continues, the tables start to turn. The chicks gain confidence, and as a united front, they start to chase the skewer. A valuable lesson. When you're a penguin, it's best to stick with the crowd. While the post office workers get on with some much-needed pre-winter maintenance, the chicks are beginning to discover a new element, water. The young ones are curious, though seem a little nervous about getting their feet wet. But hunger is a powerful incentive, and to encourage chicks to take the plunge, parent penguins draw them down to the water's edge by making them chase for food. Once they enter the water, the chicks have to learn how to swim by trial and error. Soon,the chicks will be feeding themselves, and will at last gain full independence of their parents. It's the beginning of March, and winter is fast approaching. The tourist season has ended, and the post office workers are dispatching the last post. It's a day of reflection, as this is also the day that the team is packing up and leaving Port La Croix for home. Being in this environment for so long, really,I think we get a sense of what life is in Antarctica. Not for us, because we're not meant to be here really as people, but for the creatures that evolved to be in this environment and to bear witness to that is very, very special. The team has chosen one of the worst days of the season to leave the island, and as they struggle against storm-force winds to take down the Union Jack, their thoughts inevitably turn towards home. I think we're all looking forward to getting back to certain things at home, but we'll all go back with a different outlook on life. The experience of coming here is life-changing. It takes you back to what's really important in life. It takes you down to the bare essentials and makes you realize that all the stuff you think you need at home you actually don't, and that's, you know, it is refreshing. The team is heading to a nearby cruise ship, which will take them to South America. For the next seven months, the base will remain unoccupied until a new group of volunteers returns and opens up the post office for another summer season of tourism. It does cast a spell on you when you go home. It leaves a lasting impression on you, and it's very hard to not want to come back. I know that I will want to come back in some way at some point. But over the winter, the penguins remain around Port La Croix, and these tough, resilient birds will brave many months of brutal sub-zero temperatures. Soon, all the fully grown chicks will join their parents on regular long-distance fishing trips, where finally, they'll become masters of their Antarctic home. Then next summer, in huge numbers, the penguins will gather once again to start the process of breeding at the Penguin Post Office.