The animals do have heads, yet don't want to be photographed with them

Jan 30, 2013 08:40 GMT  ·  By

This picture was taken by London photographer Paul Goldstein on the island of South Georgia, in the Atlantic Ocean, and shows a pair of headless penguins having a good old time by going for a walk on the beach.

Fear not, there is nothing wrong with these animals: they do have a head, yet it was their decision to bend it back when posing for the camera.

Apparently, Paul Goldstein had a rather difficult time trying to take this picture, simply because he could not stop laughing, Daily Mail reports.

“As I prepared my camera I did a double take as one bent its head back to scratch in a position only the most fluid of gymnasts would ever embark on. Typically it had reverted to normal by the time I got the camera up but then it did it again, and its mate too.”

“I just managed to keep the camera still enough as I was laughing so much - to them it is a perfectly normal maneuver, but to me not so,” photographer Paul Goldstein later explained.