Did someone say they'd lost a penguin?

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><h1 align="center" style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 20.0pt;">Did someone say they'd lost a penguin? 200,000 young birds search for their hungry chicks</span></span></b></h1><div align="center" style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; min-height: 1px; orphans: 2; text-align: center; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></div><div> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.0pt;">Most parents will know the problem. Your back is turned for two seconds and your little one has disappeared into the crowd.</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 7.5pt;"></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.0pt;">Well just be thankful it’s not a crowd like this.</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 7.5pt;"></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.0pt;">This sea of black, white and brown is created by 200,000 king penguins searching for their hungry chicks on the South Atlantic island of South Georgia.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVxc8cqfV80Xkdw_IWhYS9QjQ3S_ddTqsOPXz41USGuFZ1uLXgBDdYjxWj2Cz19u7-PpB5MH-ugOG6SYDZwennvCobdXlTc_OpGycgMry4fh0SdNgffVP-6cJqqG9c6zJmsuSq4dyk8sWk/s1600/image001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="263" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVxc8cqfV80Xkdw_IWhYS9QjQ3S_ddTqsOPXz41USGuFZ1uLXgBDdYjxWj2Cz19u7-PpB5MH-ugOG6SYDZwennvCobdXlTc_OpGycgMry4fh0SdNgffVP-6cJqqG9c6zJmsuSq4dyk8sWk/s400/image001.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="ecximagecaption" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 7.5pt;">Each year, the king penguin colony at Salisbury Plains, South Georgia, produces an astonishing 50,000 chicks - a number which is on the rise</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div class="ecximagecaption" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; min-height: 1px; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.0pt;">And, incredibly given the apparent chaos, the young birds hardly ever get lost – thanks to each having a unique begging call.</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 7.5pt;"></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.0pt;">The scene was captured by German photographer Michael Poliza after the penguins had returned en masse to their home colony for a new breeding season.</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 7.5pt;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; min-height: 1px; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.0pt;">King penguins are 3ft tall and weigh up to 33lbs. They lay just one egg each year and the fluffy brown chicks take 11 months to become self-sufficient, so it’s fortunate for them that their parents can p-p-p-pick them out.</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 7.5pt;"></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.0pt;">Each year, the king penguin colony at Salisbury Plains, South Georgia, produces an astonishing 50,000 chicks - a number which is on the rise.</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 7.5pt;"></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.0pt;">And Mr Poliza, from Hamburg, Germany, was left speechless when he was met by the noise, smell and breathtaking sight of the enormous colony.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7EdRp9su1Kig4XrGyRfZYUakmh9pjxqslBTwUgxZyYcyW9WFPhOjUKyqi1YknpuZDh8mY6gCiMGbIJ3JWVYvyweG8sasL9guasbfI9g7kwgE6cAT1QdIPoDM4HX1EFp3QVlzuyoj7AL7W/s1600/image002.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="262" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7EdRp9su1Kig4XrGyRfZYUakmh9pjxqslBTwUgxZyYcyW9WFPhOjUKyqi1YknpuZDh8mY6gCiMGbIJ3JWVYvyweG8sasL9guasbfI9g7kwgE6cAT1QdIPoDM4HX1EFp3QVlzuyoj7AL7W/s400/image002.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="ecximagecaption" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 7.5pt;">This sea of black, white and brown is created by 200,000 king penguins searching for their hungry chicks on the South Atlantic island</span></span></div><div> </div><div class="ecximagecaption" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; min-height: 1px; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.0pt;">He said: "Nothing can prepare you for opening your eyes and seeing hundreds of thousands of penguins right in front of you for as far as you can see.</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 7.5pt;"></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.0pt;">"It was beautiful looking out across a sea of such vibrant colour - I felt a bit like an opera conductor amidst a one-of-a-kind concert of cries from thousands of hungry chicks.</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 7.5pt;"></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.0pt;">"The view was even more stunning as it was framed by a truly breathtaking backdrop of mountains and glaciers.</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 7.5pt;"></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.0pt;">"The chick is a true 'homebody' in every sense of the word. They need about eleven months to become self-sufficient so it's a good job they have such a unique cry.</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 7.5pt;"></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.0pt;">"King penguins can recognise each other's call and can find their mate and their chick among the 200,000 birds in the colony."</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 7.5pt;"></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.0pt;">Each October king penguins across the sub polar Antarctic regions return to their home colonies to breed and lay just one precious egg.</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 7.5pt;"></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.0pt;">Dedicated Michael, who has a new exhibition opening in Germany at the end of October, had to travel to the Antarctic Peninsula on a cruise ship to capture the striking shots.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQNJjpqWQPsm2XpGensrXt1w7UMInM3Bxd5QTJD2QlqFseyWFPPjdvFKT5Nb4M8-U4L8cqJ62gykcGG63AKTTPbdbldp8N8S3966seZ8IVWxlwusUzGeYvvjmaNiwgKoyAAsmbntZEvRtu/s1600/image003.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="227" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQNJjpqWQPsm2XpGensrXt1w7UMInM3Bxd5QTJD2QlqFseyWFPPjdvFKT5Nb4M8-U4L8cqJ62gykcGG63AKTTPbdbldp8N8S3966seZ8IVWxlwusUzGeYvvjmaNiwgKoyAAsmbntZEvRtu/s400/image003.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 7.5pt;">It looks like they're playing Wheres Wally: The chaotic scenes make it look impossible for the adult penguins to find their young, but because of their unique begging call amazingly they never get lost</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 7.5pt;"> </span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4jD6K_0JR5JVy23cnHVLGg8dZM1_SUbZ4pGxwvP5ScYor_mUexYkSCJWvvl2oXbVPq1bjLKM5x3kdiTNa6tUal7yp-59jIFkXnceCatciA_bRMD4GzxYfOtTdP6nE43vEEgV2OS6TFdJR/s1600/image004.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4jD6K_0JR5JVy23cnHVLGg8dZM1_SUbZ4pGxwvP5ScYor_mUexYkSCJWvvl2oXbVPq1bjLKM5x3kdiTNa6tUal7yp-59jIFkXnceCatciA_bRMD4GzxYfOtTdP6nE43vEEgV2OS6TFdJR/s400/image004.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div align="center" class="ecximagecaption" style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div align="center" class="ecximagecaption" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 7.5pt;">Photographer Michael Poliza, who has a new exhibition opening in Germany at the end of October, had to travel to the Antarctic Peninsula on a cruise ship to capture the striking shots</span></span></div><div class="ecximagecaption" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; min-height: 1px; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.0pt;">He would wake up at 4am and go straight from his cabin to the upper deck, where a crane lifted him and a rubber dinghy overboard and lowered them into the icy water.</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 7.5pt;"></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.0pt;">He added: "Part of the courtship ritual of king penguins is an erect posture where both sexes make themselves as tall as possible to impress their potential mate.</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 7.5pt;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; min-height: 1px; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.0pt;">"During the October courtship period, males parade the females with loud calls, an erect posture and a courtship walk - being the tallest certainly impresses the females.</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 7.5pt;"></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.0pt;">"It seems like a chaotic mixture of adults and their chicks, and king penguins look quite comical, but they know exactly what they are doing.</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 7.5pt;"></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.0pt;">"On land, penguins are very curious as there have been no land predators in Antarctica so I was able to get up close to them.</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 7.5pt;"></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.0pt;">"I would love to go back again as it was a truly fantastic experience."</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 7.5pt;"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></span></div></div>

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