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ThÃs image is an image composition/design. Actually I have never seen a penguin egg in real life, but a chicken egg did it :-) The penguins a real.
Magellanic Penguin
"Neither clown nor child nor black
nor white but verticle
and a questioning innocence
dressed in night and snow:
The mother smiles at the sailor,
the fisherman at the astronaut,
but the child child does not smile
when he looks at the bird child,
and from the disorderly ocean
the immaculate passenger
emerges in snowy mourning.
I was without doubt the child bird
there in the cold archipelagoes
when it looked at me with its eyes,
with its ancient ocean eyes:
it had neither arms nor wings
but hard little oars
on its sides:
it was as old as the salt;
the age of moving water,
and it looked at me from its age:
since then I know I do not exist;
I am a worm in the sand.
the reasons for my respect
remained in the sand:
the religious bird
did not need to fly,
did not need to sing,
and through its form was visible
its wild soul bled salt:
as if a vein from the bitter sea
had been broken.
Penguin, static traveler,
deliberate priest of the cold,
I salute your vertical salt
and envy your plumed pride."
~ Pablo Neruda, 1904-1973 ~
Like at Simon's Town, the boardwalk at the penguin colony ran within feet of the nest burrows and the rocks where the penguins would rest, and they were totally used to humans being nearby.
This made it a good opportunity for some close-up shots of their face patterns.
Sophocles - The Theban Plays
Translated by E.F. Watling
- King Oedipus
- Oedipus at Colonus
- Antigone
Penguin Classics L3
Published 1947; reprint 1973
Cover: A tragic mask in the Musée du Petit Palais, Paris
excuse me, to be PC I must now call them "little penguins". Who knew there were penguins in Australia though!
The female penguin lays one pear-shaped white egg weighing 300 g (⅔ lb). It measures around 10 cm × 7 cm (3.9 in × 2.8 in). The egg is incubated on top of the feet under the warm belly for around 55 days with both birds sharing incubation in shifts of 6–18 days each. When the chicks are born they have only a thin covering of down and are entirely dependent on their parents for food and warmth. The young chick spends its time balanced on its parents' feet, sheltered by a pouch formed from the abdominal skin of the latter. During this time, the parents alternate every 3–7 days, one guarding the chick while the other forages. The guard phase lasts for 30–40 days. By then the chick has grown much bigger, can keep itself warm and protect itself against most predators. (wikipedia)