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A number of emperor penguins, which were here very numerous, were captured. ... To test the effect of music on them, Piper Kerr played to one on his pipes, ... we had no Orpheus to warble sweetly on a lute, ... but neither rousing marches, lively reels, nor melancholy laments seemed to have any effect on these lethargic phlegmatic birds; there was no excitement, no sign of appreciation or disapproval, only sleepy indifference.
- Rudmose Brown et al., The Voyage of the "Scotia," 1906