How do penguins eyes focus on land AND at sea? Seeing in the water requires more rounded, concave eyes like fish have (see: "fish-eye lens"). Penguins have flattened corneas and rely on strong eye muscles to change the shape of their lens, bulging them out to be more convex to focus while underwater
Jan 20, 2026 15:44Italian voice actor Carlo Bononi was the voice of all of the characters on Pingu. A trained clown by trade, he used a theater technique called grammelot, which consists of "speaking" in a mix of babbled gibberish noises. He improvised all the voices live and unscripted.
