The Great Penguin Rescue: Saving the African Penguins

The Great Penguin Rescue: Saving the African Penguins — page 5
When they're not hunting nesting penguins guard their chicks in the nest Their scaly feet give off body heat so the birds don't get too warm in the sunshine African penguin chicks need to eat nearly every day to grow up strong enough to swim and catch fish for themselves So when a second day and night passes without any food the female chick is very hungry By the third evening when her parents still don't return she wanders away from the nest peeping fed and moaning begging to be