What on earth is going on here?

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Where are these chicks going?

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That cliff has got to be 40, 50 feet high.

I've only ever seen emperors jump in off the sea ice.

And that's a couple of feet maximum.

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Surely they can't be thinking of going off there.

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I can't believe that. He's made it.

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So we know these chicks have grown up together, and they stick together.

I think a lot are gonna start to jump.

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Here they go, here they go.

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Those first brave jumpers seem to give the rest the confidence to follow.

Some of them are even trying to flap their wings.

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I had no idea that the chicks would be able to make such a giant leap and not just survive, but happily swim off together into the Southern Ocean.

That is a pretty unbelievable thing to see.

How's that for your first swimming lesson?

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