Two emperor penguins in Antarctica captured a short video of themselves after coming across a camera left on the ice by a human. The video isn’t a true “selfie” — the camera was recording when the birds approached it — but charmed viewers don’t seem to mind. It’s not the first time, of course, that an animal selfie has made headlines — or even the first time a penguin in Antarctica has captured itself on camera. In 2013, a Gentoo penguin in Antarctica snapped an epic, open-beaked photo of itself using a GoPro camera from a Canadian cruise company. “If a human being had made this or similar selfie photographs, they would be the copyright owner of the photograph.

Source: Washington Post March 08, 2018 17:01 UTC