Penguins living at snow park in the desert

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Meet the penguins at Ski Dubai, a snow park at Mall Of The Emirates in Dubai. Born and bred in captivity, these penguins are part of a multi-generational conservation breeding programme at SeaWorld in San Antonio, Texas.

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00:00Nah, she's a pretty girl, aren't you?

00:07Yes, you are.

00:08You've got a very handsome husband.

00:10You do.

00:11What can you see?

00:12Huh?

00:13You see everybody in the mall.

00:14Everyone's come to see you.

00:15They've come to see you.

00:16Little fish.

00:17Nom, nom, nom, nom, nom, nom.

00:18We just basically sit down just like this in their bedroom and we let them come over

00:28to us.

00:29And then, of course, because we work with them five days a week for a very long time,

00:34we know these guys better than any person.

00:38And they know us very well as well.

00:40So we spend more time with them than with our own family.

00:43So that's basically how you get such a good trust relationship.

00:47They love us and we love them as well.

00:50What he's doing is he's preening.

00:52Basically he's trying to clean me.

00:53Am I so dirty, huh?

00:57When they bond with each other, they clean each other.

00:59So that's just like monkeys when they do that little thing.

01:03They do that as well, but with their beak.

01:05So you can clean if you want.

01:10We take them out for marches.

01:11Oh, it's a camera.

01:14We take them out for marches four times a day.

01:17And when they're up in the slide and they slide down, they always tend to check if there's

01:21a shark in the water first before they go down.

01:24So they bend down and they look really well down into the water to check if there's anything

01:29going on there.

01:31And that's because they have to be safe, of course.

01:34We don't have any sharks here.

01:35They look for their own mate within the colony.

01:39So we let them do their own thing.

01:42And when they get married, you basically see that they spend a lot of time together.

01:46Come on, Anjum.

01:50You see that they spend a lot of time together.

01:52And then at some point you see them, with the king penguins at least, you see them having

01:56statue courtship.

01:58It's when they stretch their neck and they close their eyes a little bit and they stretch

02:03their necks like this.

02:04And they stay like that for a long time.

02:06And then they switch position.

02:08So it's really, really beautiful to watch.

02:13The language of speak, what we did is when we train them is we use small words.

02:20So we just use one word sentences.

02:25But what they do understand better, though, is our body language.

02:30So when I do this and I basically invite him to come over.

02:35So that's what they understand.

02:44Come up here.

02:45Say hi.

02:46Are you coming up?

02:47Hi.

02:48Hi.

02:49Come here.

02:50Hi.

02:51Come.

02:52Come on.

02:53Let's go.

02:54Get a photo.

02:55Come on.

02:56What's going on there?

02:57There's just so much happening.

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