The Mr. the Penguin.
The Mr. the Penguin.
As at any nice beings, at penguins
It is a lot of enemies. One of the most artful and dangerous - kasatki. If
Penguins in horror jump out on an ice floe and get off in flight is
Most likely means, that somewhere nearby ocean waves
Dissect fins kasatok. And small ldinki - not always, to
To regret, rescue islets. Artful kasatki have learnt the
Trunks so to shake ice floes, that penguins head over heels
Roll down directly in a mouth hishchnitsam. The main enemy of penguins on
To ice and on continent - pomornik. These gluttons always nest near
pingvinih colonies to steal pingvini eggs and baby birds.
Terribly penguins and dogs, which person after themselves were afraid
Has brought to Antarctica. But from the four-footed enemy penguins in
To Antarctica have already got rid. More correctly, the person has relieved them of it.
The Antarctic community has come to conclusion what to deliver any
Live beings to Antarctica it is impossible, and all barking and mewing
Polar old residents should be evacuated in an emergency order.
And not only saving up penguins. The world community
All understands more distinctly, that this continent should be saved as
Unique natural reserve where cannot be alien
Florae and faunae. That is why since 1998 the interdiction for import is entered in
Antarctica not only live beings, but also plants. Earlier ours
Polar explorers grew up on window sills flowers, and the most persistent -
Even cucumbers and tomatoes. And it fine facilitated a life on
Continent where there are no plants, and pleased missing without
Greens of eyes. Now any international inspection, having noticed on
Stations the runaways brought from Continent, can declare
The protest. When on Progress the Australian experts have noticed
Jumped out of soil any terrestrial, that is delivered on
The sixth continent, plant, the whole investigation, as it has begun
There has got. Most likely has come on soles of boots someone from
Participants of expedition. For certain in those boots our polar explorer at
Itself on a country site it was dug, and has then gone to them on
The sixth continent... So, when on a way to Antarctica ours
The plane has sat down in the New Zealand city of Christchurch and us have forced
To show soles and if in them earth lumps were rubbed, sent
In a toilet to wash boots, to it beginners were surprised only. And
New Zealanders terribly are afraid, that it will deliver any
Foreign jashchur or other infection, capable to harm them
To national property - to sheep or their flora
Islands. The New Zealand customs officers searched in our luggage
Foodstuff or seeds with where bolshej carefulness, than them
The European colleagues drugs. And a terrible inscription at the airport
Warned, that for illicit transportation of products or plants
You are threatened at worst with long-term imprisonment, and in
The best - the penalty at a rate of 100 thousand dollars. The most insulting, that at
One of us have selected shmat house Ukrainian fat. It
The owner obviously did not stop the New Zealand prison,
The penalty in hundred thousand zelenenkih. It was already ready to become
The smuggler, but dreamt to bring on the East the best in the world
Snack. And you do not represent, as he rejoiced, when
Nice spaniel, having sniffed at all passengers of our flight still in
To customs inspection zone, anything dangerous not having suspected, has passed
By its bag. And we rejoiced, anticipating, that in the evening in
Hotel we will cut off on a thin slice and we will open svezhepriobretennuju
In New Zealand duty free a bottle viskarja. But spaniel nevertheless,
To see, something has guessed. And in some minutes, something is visible
Having recollected, has solved: That tse fat, a yak I that ne zrozumiv? - Suddenly
Has rushed to a treasured bag and has started to yelp on all krajstcherchsky
The airport. It was necessary to open a bag, fat to take out and give it
Enough to the lovely woman in the customs form, holding it
Mean pesika on a lead. The woman at all did not become a parcel
To develop - at once has incurred it in the special chamber and has thrown
In a huge tank. - will burn, reptiles, - have assumed we, from the such
Hatred looking at a dog-informer what appears in eyes
Our compatriots only at a meeting with the slow
The Finnish customs officers withdrawing from bags vodka over
The put litre. Excuse, that the lawful anger has overflowed me and
Has forced to distract and recollect the ruined fat. Give
Let's return to penguins - to Antarctica. Penguins - birds very much
Benevolent and sharp. Anyway then, in
1982, they have fine understood, how it is important to embody to me itself
On their background. Penguins willingly pose. To photograph them it is possible with
Distance there is more metre. So, when I have returned from 27th
The Soviet Antarctic expedition, already could with pride
To show photos of penguins, well and, of course, itself liked,
Freely walking about among their colonies. But, of course, my pictures
Emperors in comparison with jobs of the well-known Swiss
Pictorialist Bruno Zendera - simply awkward attempts of a beginner
The amateur photographer. Bruno has given to penguins all life. And in
Literal sense of this word. He participated in several
The Antarctic expeditions, some times went on the Academician
Fedorove to Pravda coast where one of the largest lives
Colonies of imperial penguins. He lived in the USA and worked on
The largest American illustrated magazines, publishing in them
The pictures from Antarctica.
In 1997 it has gone on wintering in Peace in structure
The Russian Antarctic expedition to film about penguins
For the Zurich zoo. Has gone on wintering to tell
How in the middle of the Antarctic winter emperors stand
Eggs, bring up the baby birds. Bruno went on island one,
Though under safety precautions to go down on pripaj near coast
Truths alone it is forbidden - in Antarctica weather at times varies
In some minutes: that full calm snowstorm lifts clouds
Snow and to make out nothing even in several steps. But Bruno
Hated, that someone accompanied it, considering, what is it
Will prevent it to make good pictures, and at presence
Several people penguins will behave is more disturbing. To that
With it always there was a portable radio set: at any moment radio operators Peace could
To click it and to learn, how are you doing, and it always could communicate with
Station. And when in one of the first July days the Swiss
Has gone for two kilometres from Peace - to island Hasuell and
Meteorologists have informed, that in some hours snowstorm will begin,
Radio operators, even before to declare on station storm
The prevention, Brunos have contacted: Come back faster, weather
Spoils. But whether Bruno so has taken a great interest in shooting that has tarried
Whether the blizzard has flown too promptly, but an hour later the Swiss
Has informed, that it has lost the way also anything before itself(himself) does not see.
To it have ordered: Stand on a place and do not move anywhere, we you
Let's find - and began to equip rescue party. But soon
Communication has broken - at the photographer in a portable radio set batteries have sat down... Have found
Bruno only for the second days - under a coastal barrier. Have found already
The dead. It laid on ice, widely having stretched hands. In everyone
Case the pose has seemed to rescuers very strange: if it was lost
From a cold the freezing person usually tries to be curtailed
kalachikom. Heart simply is faster has not sustained. Strange another -
When in New York have opened Bruno Zendera's will it has appeared,
That the well-known photographer to whom was hardly more than fifty,
Asked to bury him in Antarctica. Now on cape Buromsky,
Where many Russian polar explorers who were lost in are buried
To Antarctica, there is also one foreign tomb - Swiss
The photographer whom all named simply - the Mr. the Penguin.
Vladamir Strugatsky.
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