National Geographic Photo of the Day: April 9th of 2015

April 9, 2015

When Penguins Attack

Photograph by Gordon Tait, National Geographic Your Shot

“This is what happens when you leave a GoPro out on the sea ice,” writes Your Shot member Gordon Tait, who captured a series of time-lapses with the HD camera system while running an ocean acidification experiment near Casey Station, Antarctica. “We often get groups of Adélie penguins coming to see what we’re doing, and this one was trying to peck the camera.”