The Great Penguin Rescue: Saving the African Penguins

The Great Penguin Rescue: Saving the African Penguins — page 1
Even though this penguin still has her downy chick coat she's already nearly adult height Alone On a mild June evening a three month old female African penguin chick wiggles out of her family's nest under a tree She straightens up tall and moans in short bursts over and over It's the way a penguin chick says I'm hungry Please feed me Her nesting colony in South Africa is full of activity at this time of year full of breeding pairs raising chicks And each evening the adults come ashore after feeding all day in the South Atlantic Ocean When this little female's parents return from the ocean with food in their bellies they'll find her and bring up partly digested fish from their stomachs for her to eat But they're not back yet so she sits waits outside the nest and