Group of emperor penguin chicks and adults
- Aptenodytes forsteri
I don't think anyone knows why emperor penguin chicks have the markings of grey, black and white that they have on their heads. Other penguin chicks are a uniform grey (or brown in the case of king penguins), maybe it's to break up the endless vistas of white and shades of blue in the Antarctic.
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This picture by Jerome Maison. © 2005 Bonne Pioche Productions
/ Alliance De Production Cinematographique.
From the Warner
Brothers film The March of the Penguins used here by permission
of
Warner Brothers.