Baily Head, January 7th 2018 ~ It is a location on the east side of an active volcano, called Deception Island in the South Shetlands in Antarctica. This place is famously revered as natures amphitheatre with roughly over 50,000 breeding pairs of Chinstrap penguins. Plus chicks & juvenile animals easily makes the population close to 200,000. Chinstraps are named after the soldiers in World War 1 - due to the black marking under their chin somewhat resembling that of the strap from the helmet worn by the brave people during that period.
Penguins have a highway, which is a path they use in somewhat a single file allowing them to pass back and forth from their nest to the ocean in order for them to forage. At Baily Head is more known as the "penguin autobahn" not a highway. Keep off their highway/path/Autobahn. That is rule 1 when being near their breeding colonies. Also, 5 metres away at all times from them, which can prove to be difficult at times when you are surrounded by almost 200,000 of them.
These little guys are known as the mountaineers of the penguin world - scaling up mountain sides again and again to get to their nests in order to feed their young ones and to relieve their partner so they may forage for food too.
They are everywhere!!!
Interestingly, penguins can only recognize one another via their distinct call. Physically they can not pick their partner from another penguin using just sight. This makes sense, as I can not pick one from another... Hence, the constant squawking from all of these animals as they stumble up and down the mountain side of this small valley on the edge of a volcano.
Did I mention the chicks..? They are pretty damn cute.
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Hermosos los pingüinos me encanto...
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These are fabulous wildlife shots! Looking forward to more.
Que wapo eres pinguino. Parece que tiene gafas
Nice pinguine
Random fact about love: It varies by species, but many penguins will mate with the same member of the opposite sex season after season.
Love penguins jeje
It's basically a soap drama at breeding colonies - the cheating & stealing
Omg they are so cute! That little one at the end <3
My favorit animal
I Love penguins ans a post on it that is very informative and has nice pictures. I like your post @thomasjmitchell.
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Awwww I love Chinstrap Penguins!!!!!
Beautiful
your post is very good, but I feel sad because now penguin habitat has started threatened by world warming
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I love these animals! Very nice photos and article... Thanks for informations. Up-voted+ :)
wow, detail on first picture is absolutely stunning
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Hahahaha soooo cute remind me with a penguine i saw it once on the internet maybe in Japan used to be called Lala it was gorgeous just like these ones
Thank you for the post @thomasjmitchell
penguins can only recognize one another via their distinct call
I never really thought about how penguins would recognize one another and this just makes me wonder how much variation each individual penguin call can have. Clearly whatever they do works but I don't know how they can make anything out when they're a big squawking cluster.
Amazing!
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Awwww too adorable 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
They are everywhere! delicate appearance of the Penguins is marvellous.
and their exceptional photographs are really worth.
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Nice photos. I hope I will earn for travel like this and catch those beautiful birds with my camera
Peguins are one of the best animals I think!
They only can get in love with one person because of Oxcitocyn, the hormone of love, they only segregate that with one person.
Is seems warm by the looking at the picture. Where are these peguins located?
Truly amazing photos! I absolutely love the the portrait at the top! There is something so endearing about penguins. What a wonderful experience it must have been to meet these guys 😃