“Is there such thing as insanity among penguins?” Thus begins this unbelievably awesome Werner Herzog clip, from his new-ish, Academy Award-losing documentary, Encounters at the End of the World:

Why does one penguin separate from the others and head out on a journey toward certain death toward the Antarctic Interior? Herzog doesn’t know, but he has some tremendously grim, German-accented things to say about it.

A sure crowd-pleaser to those of us who enjoyed Herzog’s speech about the indifference of nature in Grizzly Man.

[HT: Yglesias]