Flipping Brilliant
A Penguin's Guide to a Happy Life
Penguin Photos: Page 1, Page 2, Page 3, Page 4
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Adélie penguin
Commonwealth Bay, Antarctica
All penguins have the ability to bulk up for breeding and molting. When Adélies leave the colony after molting, they will have lost almost half their body weight.
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Adélie penguins
Couverville Island, Antarctic Peninsula
Adélies are the archetypal "black on top, white below" penguins. This camouflage is called countershading.
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King penguins
St. Andrews Bay, South Georgia
King penguin fledglings spend months in créches, where they stand flipper-to-flipper waiting for their parents to bring them their next meal.
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Adélie penguins
Commonwealth Bay, Antarctica
Penguins depend on identifying the distinctive sound of their partners and young. Thus, their ritual, called bobbing and flapping, is vital to successful mating and reproduction.
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King penguins
Macquarie Island
Unlike other birds that dive into the sea by paddling their feet, penguins literally "fly" underwater, using their flippers to propel themselves, just as most other birds do in a less dense medium-air.
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Chinstrap penguins
South Shetland Islands, Antarctica
Adult penguins regurgitate fish and krill from their feeding expeditions directly into the bills of their young soon after returning to the nest.
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Adélie penguins
Davis Station, Antarctica
Adélies face the threat of patrolling leopard seals most times they enter the sea. The mass entry affords them a degree of safety.
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King penguins
Falkland Islands
Penguins spend most of their lives at sea, coming ashore only to breed and molt. With stubby legs, they are awkward on land but in the water they are graceful and perfectly adapted.
Flipping Brilliant: A Penguin's Guide to a Happy Life
Images by Jonathan Chester | Words by Patrick Regan
ISBN: 978-0-7407-7229-0
Format: Hardcover: 6 x 6, 64 pages
Price: $9.99 ($10.99 Canada)
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing,LLC
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