Flipping Brilliant
A Penguin's Guide to a Happy Life
Penguin Photos: Page 1, Page 2, Page 3, Page 4
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Emperor penguins
Auster Rookery, Antarctica
Polar penguins, such as the emperor and the Adélie, have no land predators, so they nest and rest on ice with impunity. Their biggest threat is the most-southerly flying bird, the skua.
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King penguins
South Georgia
Kings breed in vast colonies and require relatively flat ground, because they balance their one egg on their feet until it hatches.
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Adélie penguins
Commonwealth Bay, Antarctica
These birds easily endure extreme cold and violent winds in the place that was named "The Home of the Blizzard" by early Australian explorer Sir Douglas Mawson.
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Gentoo penguins, Pygoscelis papua
Antarctic Peninsula
The color of a penguin's guano is a good indication of what it has been eating. Krill gives it a reddish tinge, while a diet of fish and squid leaves it more bleached.
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King penguins
Falkland Islands
At 37 1/2 inches (95 cm) in height, the king is the second-largest of the seventeen recognized penguin species. They are easily identified by their bright orange comma-shaped ear patch.
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Adélie penguins
Paulet Island, Antarctic Peninsula
On this remote island, on the eastern side of the Antarctic Peninsula, Adélies were food for stranded Swedish explorers from Nordenskjöld's 1901-04 expedition.
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Gentoo penguin
Falkland Islands
Penguins can sleep standing up, often seeming like statues as they conserve energy.
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Emperor penguins
Auster Rookery, Antarctica
There likely are fewer than 200,000 emperor penguin pairs located in forty-two known colonies distributed at high latitudes (66° to 70°S) around the Antarctic continent.
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
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