Penguins are not impressed by opera singer's performance

When British tenor Nick Allen decided to show off his singing chops in Antarctica, the unusual audience did not quite have the reaction he expected.

Bundled up in clothes for the frigid temperature, the opera singer belted out a tune in front of a group of penguins, only to make the tuxedo-ed birds flee as quickly as their webbed feet could take them away from the opera star.

Allen, who debuted with England’s National Symphony Orchestra in 2015, did not take the rejection to heart, laughing at the end of the performance.

The video has since gone viral, amassing over 640,000 views on YouTube, and receiving a mention on Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight Show earlier this week.

While there have been studies claiming only humans have an emotional response to human-made music, the birds’ strong reaction to the operatic performance may just bolster one study completed in 2012 by a researcher at Emory University: birds’ brains react to music in the same way that human’s brains do. So maybe those penguins just really hate opera music.