Photo Captures Over 3,000 Penguins Huddling in Extreme South America
- Posted on June 2, 2011 at 10:25pm by
Billy Hallowell
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Penguins, like human beings, have stellar parenting skills. Don’t believe us? Consider the facts: In South Georgia (way down the map, off the coast of South America), temperatures can get pretty cold. Accordingly, King Penguins have a solution for making sure their young don’t freeze to death.
Instinctively, these adult penguins come together to form a protective shield of warmth around their babies. This massive collection of “bodies” provides enough heat to ensure the young birds survive the cold temperatures (see the above image for an aerial shot of their mass huddle). Mail Online has more:
Parental instinct takes over in the inhospitable climate of the South Atlantic and the chicks with their long, brown, downy coats are made to crowd together to retain their body warmth in the equivalent of bird creches – visible as brown swathes on [the above photo].
Meanwhile their extraordinary parents waddle down to the shore to bring back dinner for their offspring.
The chicks, which take between 10 to 13 months to raise – cannot regulate their body temperature and the parents care for them round the clock for the first three weeks.
The idea that these adult penguins know that they need to take such enormous steps to protect their young is astounding. Below, you can watch these amazingly-majestic birds fast at work:
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Comments (57)
love the kids
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 7:41amYou would think the GREENIES would be pushing for pollutiuon so we could increase the temps on the globe so these oppressed animals could live with warmth. All animals should have the same rights.
Report Post »thermonator
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 6:35amIf you liked this, you have to watch the movie, “March of the Penguins”.
Report Post »A very inspiring movie.
Grickets
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 6:24am“Penguins, like human beings, have stellar parenting skills” , stupidest comment ever on The Blaze.
Penguins are far superior parents than humans because penguins do not choose to murder their unborn babies for convenience in a Planned Parenthood abattoirs.
Report Post »BOMUSTGO
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 6:24amThat photo is actually a nun convention at the vatican.
Report Post »Lux
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 2:35amalmost looks like part of the face on one of the faith, hope, charity, pics.
Report Post »jim
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 1:55amSaw March of the Penguins. I laughed, I cried, it was better than Cats.
Report Post »Contrarian51
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 1:55amA later overhead photo revealed that they’d made a formation spelling out “BO Must Go”
Report Post »cookcountypatriot
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 1:50amthose are more caring parents than many human ding bats in this world…….god is good
Report Post »TheGreyPiper
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 12:00amHa, there’s your global warming! Freezing to death in the South American jungles in the middle of summer!
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Wait for it…..
ReddirtOkie
Posted on June 2, 2011 at 11:52pmAll creatures, great and small, the good Lord made them all.
Report Post »dontbotherme
Posted on June 2, 2011 at 11:24pmOh, what amazing creatures God has created!
Report Post »mossbrain
Posted on June 2, 2011 at 11:11pmMan, I bet that baby penguin fur would make a nice hat. Is it legal to club them? Or have the damn environmentalists ruined another fun sport?
Report Post »CatB
Posted on June 2, 2011 at 11:39pmThese aren’t in Canada .. that is where they still club the baby seals. No I am not a crazy enviromentalist .. but it does seem cruel to club a baby animal in front of the parents .. just saying.
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 1:20am@ catb………….just ask them to look the other way
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on June 2, 2011 at 11:10pmWhat does a Penguin taste like?
Report Post »Jaycen
Posted on June 2, 2011 at 10:57pmIt’s cool.
Report Post »Tusker
Posted on June 2, 2011 at 10:52pmAwwwwwww, very nice.
Report Post »CanteenBoy
Posted on June 2, 2011 at 10:51pmI think I see BO’s face in that photo… quick, where are the Orcas??
Report Post »commonsenseguy
Posted on June 2, 2011 at 10:47pmi wish you would tell the story right, it is the male that has to stay and protect the egg,until it has hatched ,then stay until the little one can go out on it’s own, the mother lays the egg,then leaves the male ,she come s back only every now and then and usually, it is then. but still a great photo, and pretty cool { cold } how they survive those extreme conditions.
Report Post »islandlady
Posted on June 2, 2011 at 10:35pmA sign it is tooo darn cold!!!!!!!!!! Still!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »wianno94
Posted on June 2, 2011 at 10:35pmI see the face of Barack Obama in that picture. Get Air Force One ready for a trip to South Georgia Island. Hopefully they don’t have a fuel refill station on the island.
Report Post »TumbleBumble
Posted on June 2, 2011 at 10:34pmLooks like a Picasso.
Report Post »oriondma05
Posted on June 2, 2011 at 10:30pmYeah, our natural parenting skills went out the window when that lady in Ohio taped her 2 year old daughter smoking pot and deciding to email the video to a friend.
Report Post »dealer@678
Posted on June 2, 2011 at 10:30pmA sign. Maybe
Report Post »riseandshine
Posted on June 2, 2011 at 10:29pmAdd your comments
Report Post »TheGreyPiper
Posted on June 2, 2011 at 11:58pmOk.
Report Post »D0ntTread0nMe
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 12:50amyour comments….
Report Post »riseandshine
Posted on June 2, 2011 at 10:28pmCool stuff
Report Post »The_Almighty_Creestof
Posted on June 2, 2011 at 10:28pmLook at all them happy feet!
Report Post »1stAmendment
Posted on June 2, 2011 at 10:31pmWow! Gods creation!
Report Post »Exrepublisheep
Posted on June 2, 2011 at 10:32pmThats a lot of penguin poop.
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on June 2, 2011 at 10:48pmWhich one is BO???
Report Post »theonefromabove
Posted on June 2, 2011 at 10:49pmAmazing to see nature at its best.
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Report Post »Ookspay
Posted on June 2, 2011 at 11:01pmI thought our SUV’s killed all the penguins and polar bears!
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on June 2, 2011 at 11:05pmGod gave them enough brainpower and sense in doing their job as parents; when I first read this articles title, I wondered if it concerned another global warming dingbat groups efforts…glad they showed how wonderful God’s handiwork truly is in life.
Report Post »godlovinmom
Posted on June 2, 2011 at 11:48pmHey Snow, too bad some humans don’t have some of that brain power…some mama’s (and daddys) today just amaze me….I have had little girls stay overnight with my little girl that wouldn’t know my husband and I from Adam and Eve…But nature is spectacular, animal planet is one of my favorite channels!
Report Post »TurnRight
Posted on June 2, 2011 at 11:50pmGlobal Warming
Report Post »D0ntTread0nMe
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 12:49amWhat’s up with all the segregation? They need more social justice.
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capitalismrocks
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 1:04amAnd these animals who can‘t talk to one another and have just basic instinct skills don’t have intelligent design in them from God to know how to work together to keep their babies alive, that somehow through evolution they learned how to keep their babies warm?
So by that notion, that would mean they didn’t know how to keep their babies warm in the beginning, but had to evolve to do so… riddle me this batman…. if they had to learn this, they‘d all have been dead from the very beginning and none would’ve “evolved” to learn this skill…
Same with butterflies that have Owl Eye’s on the backs of their wings… so they just evolved to grow that pattern, knowing what an Owl is and then knowing how to make a pattern on their wings that they can’t see, they “evolved” to understand an Owl keeps a predator away?
Yeah, there is evolution, improvements in a design… but God is the architect and he laid out the blueprints of intelligent design into all things…. I’m involved in technology and science and their is no way of scientifically explaining away how certain features and characteristics of animals just “evolved” out of nothing, not without their being Intelligent Design to start with… God’s design….
Report Post »KickinBack
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 1:20amEven the music was cool! Nice article, just made my night. Thanks Blaze!
Report Post »avenger
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 6:22amslow day on the news…
Report Post »tommee
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 11:05amKind of like human beings. They must work together to survive.
Report Post »tommee
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 11:10amHey CAPITALISMROCKS
Who designed God!
Report Post »fightback
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 6:47pmPenquins vote 3000 to 0 for global warming
Report Post »brickmoon
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 8:54pmThe moderator apparently removed my post yesterday with my off-hand comment, “They’re staging a mass protest of the illegal occupation of one thousandth of one percent of the Antarctic continent,“ and a link to ”Chicken Feed” video, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ny2fgRs7Ylk which contains a somewhat related scene.
Yes, it‘s the moderator’s prerogative — perhaps it was misconstrued as advertising, but I think it’s at least marginally congruent with the discussion. Meanwhile, blatantly anti-Semitic ranting comments on other stories are overlooked?
Report Post »Parnell3rd
Posted on June 4, 2011 at 1:45amI guess Al Gore’s global warming message has not gotten to the penguins.
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