Some very lucky penguins are getting a military escort back home. The Brazilian air force and navy are teaming up to take the birds back to their Antarctic home after they got stuck on a beach in Brazil.

Every year, penguins typically wash up on Brazil's shores after they catch a ride from the Antarctic Circle on ice floes. The floes melt off the Brazilian shore and the penguins wash ashore. Most are taken to area zoos.

But these penguins got stuck on a beach last month. So an air force place taking equipment for an Antarctic naval base will take the penguins to Brazil's southernmost region to meet up with a naval ship which will take them back to the Antarctic. From there, the ship will release them back into the ocean.