One particular scene had people on the edge of their seats during the latest episode of BBC’s latest David Attenborough nature documentary, Dynasties.
It followed a group of emperor penguins trying to survive the brutal winter in Antarctica. When a particularly nasty storm blew some of the penguins down into a ravine with walls too steep for them to climb, things got almost too real.
Some penguin mothers abandoned their chicks as they pecked their way out of the ravine, while others were just hopelessly stuck without hope of getting out.
That’s when the Dynasties crew, in a move later called “unprecedented” by BBC Earth on Twitter, decided to prevent nature from taking its course and act.
Having watched the abandoned penguins and chicks try to get out of the ravine for days with no luck, they intervened as the chicks started dying in the ravine.
“We’ve given it a lot of thought, we’ve decided we’re definitely going to dig a shallow ramp that they’ll hopefully use,” director William Lawson tells the camera, as the crew gets their shovels out and start digging a path for the penguins to follow out of the ravine.
Then, as the penguins then make their way out, viewers let out a collective sigh of relief on social media.
I’m sorry but if I were a camera man on #Dynasties – I wouldn’t care for letting nature ‘take it’s course’. I’d run head first into that snow storm to rescue that abandoned penguin chick. Heart broke watching it tumble down like that
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— Sanna (@sanna995) November 18, 2018
I’m so glad the crew made that path. It wasn’t altering the food chain, just giving the penguins a chance to survive against the elements. #Dynasties
— Jamie Fox (@jamiefox1) November 18, 2018
Dynasties amazing. The crew saving the penguins will go down as a special moment in wildlife filming.
— Pete Wishart (@PeteWishart) November 18, 2018
We totally had to pretend to the youngest that the mum penguin
who made it out of the ravine with her baby was the same mum as the one who abandoned her chick, and she’d just realised her terrible mistake and gone back for him
#Dynasties #meltdownavoided
— Jen Dyson
(@Dyson1Jen) November 18, 2018
Here’s to the Dynasties crew: restoring just a tiny bit our faith in humanity.
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