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.