Penguin animatronics – scientific breakthrough or cruel animal stage management

Penguins have been used in such hit films as Madagascar, and the march of the penguins.  Little do many people know however, that only 3 out of 100 of these penguins are real. 

In march of the penguins, scientists deliberately worked out the formula to create maximum sympathy from its audience.  This required immeasurable hardship on the penguins, and as such many died in the filming process.  Out of the 4000 original cast, only 27 made it to the end.  This was due to them being taken from their natural, sunny habitat of South Africa, and dumped carelessly in the middle of Antarctica, where they also ship in polar bears purely for the tension.  They also feed them only rarely, as the polar winds are so strong that they cannot possible fly in their daily amounts of red eyed kalimari squid, native only to the shores of Swaziland. ...

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