Antarctic gentleman: What are the habits of penguins?

The Penguin is the only penguin that winters on the Antarctic continent, and in order to withstand the low temperatures and cold winds during the polar night, they must huddle together to keep warm – by forming a "penguin wall" close together to resist the cold winds that pierce the bones of the finches. From this point of view, the penguin standing in the outermost circle is indeed unlucky, because it cannot completely avoid the wind like its counterparts inside, and its back is always blown by the wind.

But this dense pile of penguins is actually moving slowly and slowly, and almost every half minute or so, the penguins will move in a random direction, and in this way, the penguins on the outside will be wrapped in the inside, and the penguins on the inside will go to the periphery when they move.

But what if the penguins inside are afraid of the cold and won't come out? In fact, there is no need to worry at all, because the penguins inside are very eager to stand outside, this is because the temperature in the middle of the penguin pile can quickly rise very high, so high that the penguins inside can not bear it, a study in recent years has found that the core temperature of a large penguin pile can even reach more than 30 degrees. Therefore, these penguin piles will not last too long, and they will usually disperse in a rush in about fifty minutes.

After some penguins are scattered, the snow on the ground melts, and some penguins will lie on the ground to eat snow ...... because they have been standing in the middle for too long

The only special situation is that when there are baby penguins in the group, the newborn baby penguin feathers are not fully developed and can not resist the cold wind at all, in order to protect the offspring, the little penguin always stands in the middle of the penguin pack without the need to rotate outside.

Therefore, it seems that there is a lot of wisdom in it, and this wisdom is accumulated over millions of years of evolutionary experience.

I just finished watching the documentary "Emperor Penguin Diary" two hours ago, which records in detail the life cycle of Antarctic penguins.

Before the Antarctic East season, male and female penguins mate with each other and lay penguin eggs.

After laying eggs, the female penguins leave their original "base" together for "migration and feeding".

All the male penguins stayed behind to take on the task of incubating the eggs, and for more than four months they did not eat any food, huddled together to resist the cold wind and freezing (such a scene must have been seen on TV).

There's always a ball between your feet, and it's there when you walk (which looks very funny and cute).

This is how the male penguins spend the whole winter.

More than four months later, the sun rises and summer arrives in Antarctica, by which time most of the eggs have hatched.

But these little penguins can't stand on their own, otherwise they'll freeze to death.

At this time, a large number of female penguins also return to the "base" to "meet" the male penguins guarding the "base".

The male penguin then gives the baby penguin to the female penguin for protection (the baby penguin moves from the male penguin's straddle to the female penguin's straddle).

In this way, the baby penguin can get food from the mouth of the mother.

Male penguins go out in large numbers to find food, but a large number of male penguins will die at this time.

The little penguin stayed under the stepping of the mother penguin for more than a month, and when it was too big to stay, it began to run out and play independently, and at this time it was still covered with fluff.

During this time, it learns some of the great penguin's behaviors.

After a while, when the little penguins grow their feathers, the mother penguins will enter the water in large numbers and start another round of foraging.

The baby penguin will also enter the water for the first time and begin its own lifelong ......