Saturday, October 14, 2006

Pinguins at Punta Tombo

yesterday we went to visit the second biggets pinguin colony in world - 500,000 pinguins!
we got to stroll among them and got to see how they live during the summer time. now they are hatching their eggs and at the beginning of November the babies will be born.
each time - one of the parents goes to sea for 2-3 days to bring food for his family. they can go 600 km from home to bring anshovies or their favourite squid. the average dive of a pinguine lasts 1 minute and reaches the depth of 12 meters. when the pinguine that´s left to watch the children misses his/her partner or is hungry - they lift their head to the sky and scream the weirdest sound we´ve heard, to call their partner back home. so we heard lots of pinguins talk that day :)

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