India, Jan. 27 -- A short, grainy video of a lone penguin waddling away from the ocean towards a towering icy mountain is grabbing attention on social media, amusing and puzzling millions. Widely shared across Instagram, X and YouTube Shorts, the clip shows the penguin, now dubbed the 'nihilist penguin', heading inland, away from its colony - seemingly exhibiting behaviour that penguins are not known for.

The clip is from Encounters at the End of the World, a 2007 documentary by German filmmaker Werner Herzog, which shows an Adelie penguin breaking away from its group in Antarctica and walking nearly 70 kilometres towards a mountain range. (Also read: Cardiologist with 20 years of experience shares how a woman's symptoms dismissed as 'an...