A Mexican newspaper reports that bored Royal Air Force pilots stationed on
the Falkland Islands have devised what they consider a marvelous new game. Noting
that the local penguins are fascinated by airplanes, the pilots search out a
beach where the birds are gathered and fly slowly along it at the water edge.
Perhaps ten thousand penguins turn their heads in unison watching the planes
go by, and when the pilots turn around and fly back, the birds turn their heads
in the opposite direction, like spectators at a slow-motion tennis match. Then,
the paper reports, "The pilots fly out to sea and directly to the penguin
colony and overfly it. Heads go up, up, up, and ten thousand penguins fall over
gently onto their backs.