The animals swam in close order, rising and blowing like porpoises, and we wondered if there was any significance in their journey northward at that time of the year.
Several young emperor penguins had been captured and brought aboard on the previous day.

Two of them were still alive when the 'Endurance' was brought alongside the floe.

They promptly hopped on to the ice, turned round, bowed gracefully three times, and retired to the far side of the floe.

There is something curiously human about the manners and movements of these birds.

I was concerned about the dogs.