For a little fun, Eddie Gault, a researcher with the Australian Antarctic Division, put a camera on the ground near an emperor penguin colony at the Auster Rookery in Antarctica.

It wasn’t long before a couple of penguins waddled over to the instrument and started checking it out.

It was already recording, and captured some fantastic close-ups of the pair, reports Engadget.

Take a look:

How adorable? And that gawing sound?

If you have a thing for bird selfies, you might have been reminded of that time a sea eagle stole a camera from the banks of the Margaret River, Australia:

Penguins are better.

[source:engadget]