\n\ufeffDear PenguinPromises<\/span>
The eggs have hatched and there are now two beautiful baby penguins for Promises <\/span>
to take care of.<\/span>
Hatching out of the egg is hard work for the chicks. In children’s cartoons the <\/span>
eggs just pop open and out jumps the chick, but it is not like that in real life <\/span>
for penguins. It takes many hours for a penguin chick to fight its way out of <\/span>
the egg.<\/span>
Penguins are heavy birds, so to prevent the eggs from breaking under the weight <\/span>
of Promises lying over them, the egg shell has to be strong and hard to break. <\/span>
That is good for stopping the eggs from breaking, but it is bad news for the <\/span>
chick inside trying to get out. The chick is also squeezed inside the egg and <\/span>
hardly has any space to move around. <\/span>
However the chick has been provided with a special tool that can help it escape. <\/span>
Inside the egg the chick has grown a little spike on the upper tip of its beak, <\/span>
which is called the ‘Egg Tooth’. This spike has just one purpose; to make a hole <\/span>
in the egg shell. It works exactly the same way as the special hammers you see <\/span>
on public transport for breaking windows in an emergency. After the chick has <\/span>
hatched, the egg tooth is gradually absorbed and disappears. It has served its <\/span>
purpose and is no longer needed.<\/span>
Even with the help of the egg tooth, nothing is easy. The chick has to wriggle <\/span>
around inside the egg to get itself into the right position, so that it can hit <\/span>
the shell with the spike on its beak. Being tightly squeezed inside the egg, <\/span>
it is difficult to move around, so it can take the chick a long time to do that. <\/span>
Once it has made a tiny hole in the shell, the chick then has to peck at that <\/span>
hole so that it slowly gets bigger.<\/span>
The bigger the hole gets, the easier it is for the chick to chip away at it to <\/span>
make the hole even larger. Cracks start to form around the hole making the shell <\/span>
weaker. All the time the chick tries pushing with its shoulders and its feet <\/span>
to try and burst the egg open. Eventually the egg is weakened enough by the hole <\/span>
and cracks, and it finally breaks open.<\/span>
Even then the struggle is not always over. Very often the chick is left with <\/span>
half the egg shell stuck to its back or its head, and has to wriggle around to <\/span>
free itself. The chick can only work for a few minutes at a time before it gets <\/span>
tired and has to take a rest. The tiny chicks get tired very quickly.<\/span>
The adults are unable to help. With no hands and just a large clumsy beak, Promises <\/span>
could easily injure the tiny chick, so the anxious parents just have to wait <\/span>
and watch. When the chick is finally free of the egg shell, Promises can then <\/span>
help nudge the chick underneath to keep it warm and safe. A few days later the <\/span>
second chick hatches.<\/span>
The chicks communicate with Promises from inside the egg. This communication <\/span>
helps the parents to know when the egg will hatch. During incubation the parents <\/span>
take turns going to sea to feed, but both parents are present in the nest when <\/span>
the eggs hatch. They are anxious parents waiting for the ‘birth’.<\/span>
After hatching, the chicks spend the next two or three days just sleeping. They <\/span>
do not even ask for food because they still have yolk reserves inside their stomach <\/span>
from the egg. Eventually they do get hungry and wake up asking for food, and <\/span>
they are fed mashed up fish.<\/span>
Penguins do not have any real teeth, so the adults regurgitate fish that has <\/span>
been mashed up in their stomach. Birds do not have teeth at all. Having teeth <\/span>
would make birds too heavy to fly. Of course penguins cannot fly, but being birds <\/span>
they have inherited the lack of teeth anyway.<\/span>
It is not so much that teeth are heavy, but in order to have strong teeth you <\/span>
need a strong jaw bone, which is heavy. Beaks are made of a material very similar <\/span>
to our finger nails. It is very light and can be very strong. Parrots for example, <\/span>
can break open very hard nuts using their beaks, and yet their beaks are still <\/span>
very light.<\/span>
Magellanic penguins have a downward pointing hook at the end of their beak, which <\/span>
they use to stop the slippery fish from escaping when they grab it. They then <\/span>
swallow the fish whole head first. The fish is broken up into a mushy paste inside <\/span>
the stomach, and fed to the chicks back in the nest.<\/span>
The chicks are not able to walk when they hatch, but once they start taking some <\/span>
food they grow quickly, and soon learn how to stand and walk about. They never <\/span>
go far, and spend most of the time hiding underneath Promises to keep warm.<\/span>
The new born chicks are too small and fragile to take any photos just yet. They <\/span>
spend all their time hiding underneath Promises, which makes taking good photos <\/span>
almost impossible. So to show you what penguin chicks look like when they are <\/span>
little, I attach a video which I hope you like.<\/span>
The chicks grow very quickly, and double their weight every few days. In addition <\/span>
to increasing in size, there are lots of internal changes going on inside the <\/span>
chick during the first two weeks. When the chicks hatch they are not able to <\/span>
produce their own body heat, so they need to be underneath Promises to keep warm.<\/span>
Generating body heat requires a lot of food to provide the energy, which is why <\/span>
the chicks are born without that ability. Inside the egg the chicks cannot be <\/span>
fed, so it would make no sense to generate their own warmth. Once the chicks <\/span>
hatch and start getting fed, their bodies start to develop special cells that <\/span>
convert food into heat, as do all warm-blooded animals.<\/span>
By the time the chicks are two weeks old, they will be able to keep themselves <\/span>
warm, and that allows them to come out from underneath Promises for short periods. <\/span>
They also grow a lot of new fluffy feathers so that their newly generated heat <\/span>
is not lost to the cold air. This new independence allows the chicks to move <\/span>
around in the nest and to practice walking. <\/span>
The chicks still do not wander away from the nest. Whilst the chicks are still <\/span>
small it would be far too dangerous for them to leave the protection of Promises. <\/span>
There are many predators that would try to catch small chicks if they strayed <\/span>
away from the nest.<\/span>
The main predators here are skuas, which are large brown predatory seagulls. <\/span>
The skuas circle around over the colony, constantly on the lookout for the chicks <\/span>
of penguins and other birds nesting in the area. The adult penguins are tough, <\/span>
and pack a vicious bite, so the chicks are perfectly safe so long as they remain <\/span>
close to Promises. The skuas would not dare come within pecking distance of an <\/span>
adult penguin.<\/span>
It takes about six weeks for the chicks to begin leaving the nest, and when they <\/span>
do, that is when we will be able to take a nice photo of the chicks for you. <\/span>
As soon as the chicks begin leaving the nest we will send you a photo of them.<\/span>
In the meantime, I would like to wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas <\/span>
and a Happy New Year. I hope you like the attached Christmas card.<\/span>
Best wishes, \u00a0Mike<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas from Promises \ufeffDear PenguinPromisesThe eggs have hatched and there are now two beautiful baby penguins for Promises to take care of.Hatching out of the egg is hard work for the chicks. In children’s cartoons the eggs just pop open and out jumps the chick, but it is not like that in real life […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":140343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11766],"tags":[336,59732,362,16112],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-140342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-animal","tag-christmas","tag-fwd","tag-merry","tag-promises"],"yoast_head":"\n
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