{"id":143622,"date":"2025-03-19T11:54:23","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T11:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/animal\/update-from-mike-on-wild-penguins-in-s-america\/"},"modified":"2025-03-19T11:54:23","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T11:54:23","slug":"update-from-mike-on-wild-penguins-in-s-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=143622","title":{"rendered":"Update from Mike on wild penguins in S America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-body-6076264860063546382\">\n<p class=\"mobile-photo\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEglN9oGIj2ed3emRFZlPT2TS70jpLbMMVje5WHOejzHHVMGNh5DLgWEIT50w6w0UUhVssuVi2_ngi2aW1kn8Ah_jrhWFO3tERzjcKS5dPozeGhjTesUDb69euMRBz6w9sPQ2qF1CCRqgDeH\/s1600\/%2523Bush%2526Penguins-723040.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_7028089594296175762\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEglN9oGIj2ed3emRFZlPT2TS70jpLbMMVje5WHOejzHHVMGNh5DLgWEIT50w6w0UUhVssuVi2_ngi2aW1kn8Ah_jrhWFO3tERzjcKS5dPozeGhjTesUDb69euMRBz6w9sPQ2qF1CCRqgDeH\/s320\/%2523Bush%2526Penguins-723040.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mobile-photo\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgnZcK1GKShq7Zppa9P4mrjWgsmrPncU0hrMjM7fFCDsjGErRi108btQj14v63iC0LuzeNKEacQC7-scp4I47g-5f-iVdBtQgmCff2Z4URGLk_c8hC6LhwQdET_cEANreFdX_eAIQR5HNtf\/s1600\/Promises-724884.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_7028089600354754642\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgnZcK1GKShq7Zppa9P4mrjWgsmrPncU0hrMjM7fFCDsjGErRi108btQj14v63iC0LuzeNKEacQC7-scp4I47g-5f-iVdBtQgmCff2Z4URGLk_c8hC6LhwQdET_cEANreFdX_eAIQR5HNtf\/s320\/Promises-724884.JPG\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&gt;<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; \ufeffDear PenguinPromises<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt;<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; The penguins began arriving back in the colony in early October. The male<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; penguins arrive about 10 days before the females, and gather on the beach<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; waiting for the females to arrive. The pairs become separated during the<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; winter migration, and this is how they meet up again. It is a reunion in<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; which it is okay for the female to arrive late, but not the male.<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt;<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; There are more male eggs laid than female eggs, so there are always more<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; male penguins than females in the population. If the male looses his<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; partner, it is more difficult for him to find another unattached female. It<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; is therefore important for the male to be ready and waiting when his partner<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; returns to the colony, in order to avoid loosing her to a competitor, of<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; which there are many.<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt;<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; By contrast, not only is it easier for the female to find a replacement<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; partner, but she is also running against her own biological clock when she<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; arrives at the colony. She is already carrying rudimentary eggs when she<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; arrives home, and they need fertilizing shortly after arrival to ensure that<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; they are laid at the proper time.<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt;<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; If the female arrives back at the colony and the male has not arrived, the<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; female will not wait long before pairing with one of the many unattached<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; males. She does not really have much choice. If the eggs are not fertilized<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; they will be reabsorbed, and the female will loose her chance to raise<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; chicks for another year.<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt;<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; To stop that from happening the males arrive about 10 days before the<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; females, and the females renew the courtship with their usual partner. As a<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; result of this protocol, Magellanic penguins are very faithful and usually<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; remain with the same partner for life.<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt;<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; Your penguin reunited again after the long separation during the migration,<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; and the couple have spent the last few days making changes to the nest.<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt;<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; The couple made a new nest under a different part of their bush. Last year&#8217;s<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; nest will have fleas that have been dormant in the bottom of the nest since<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; last season. The fleas lie dormant in the soil over the winter and wake up<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; again when they feel the warmth of the penguins back in the nest. Fleas and<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; ticks that were on the penguin when they left on migration would have died<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; after being so long in the water, so the penguins come back to the nest<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; relatively free of parasites.<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt;<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; Moving the nest a very short distance may possibly help cut down the number<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; of fleas, but considering it is still around the same bush, it is unlikely<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; to make much difference. Even if the penguins did prevent some of last<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; year&#8217;s fleas from getting back into their feathers, they soon pick up fleas<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; again just walking through the colony. Sadly fleas are a burden that all of<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; the penguins just have to put up with.<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt;<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; We also have to put up with the fleas when working with the penguins.<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; Although penguin fleas can only survive on penguins, they still bite people<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; in an attempt to draw blood, and cause itchy spots like mosquito bites. They<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; especially like getting into people&#8217;s socks, and a visit to the penguin<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; colony is often followed by itchy bites around the ankles. Thankfully<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; penguin fleas cannot survive on human blood, so they soon die and cannot<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; cause an infestation. A shower and a change of clothes at the end of the day<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; is all that is needed to get rid of them.<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt;<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; Magellanic penguins prefer to nest in burrows, but here the soil is too dry<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; and sandy for making burrows. Anything more than a simple hollow would<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; collapse. So the penguins here make their nests under the bushes, which give<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; them some protection from bad weather and predators.<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt;<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; Magellanic penguins always lay two eggs, with a separation of about 4 days<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; between the first and second egg. We never disturb the penguins to take<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; photos until they have laid their eggs. If we tried to take photos before<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; the first egg is laid, the new penguins could possibly abandon their nest<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; and make a new nest somewhere else. However once the eggs have been laid the<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; penguins will not abandon the nest.<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt;<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; The two eggs have now been laid, and I attach a new photo of your penguin<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; incubating them.<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt;<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; The eggs are large, weighing over 100 grams each, and take about 7 weeks to<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; hatch. During that time both penguins take turns at incubating the eggs to<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; keep them warm so that they can develop properly. One penguin stays in the<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; nest lying over the eggs to keep them warm and hidden from predators, whilst<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; the other partner goes to sea to catch fish. They swap over every two or<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; three days so that both penguins can take turns at catching fish.<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt;<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; The most common cause of egg loss is not predation, but rather penguins<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; taking too long to return to the nest. Our studies show that penguins will<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; abandon the nest if their partner does not return within about 6 days during<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; the incubation. This is most common with inexperienced penguins nesting for<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; the first time, and is usually caused by less experienced parents being<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; unfamiliar with the surrounding area, and having trouble finding the shoals<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; of fish.<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt;<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; Inexperienced penguins also occasionally have problems locating their nest<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; amongst the 150,000 other nests in the colony. People sometimes have trouble<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; remembering where they parked their car, but imagine a parking lot with<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; 150,000 lots, all hidden within a dense forest. The bushes are like trees to<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; the penguins, who have no chance of seeing over the top to get their<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; bearings (see second photo).<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt;<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; The egg is a truly remarkable thing. Life on Earth began in water, and all<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; embryos need to develop in water. So many groups of animals developed eggs<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; in order to provide a self contained capsule that provides that aquatic<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; environment on land where there is no water.<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt;<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; Each egg contains exactly enough ingredients inside its shell to produce a<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; baby penguin. That may sound obvious, but most animals have babies that vary<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; in size. Penguins don&#8217;t. The fertilized egg grows a network of blood vessels<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; around the outside of the yolk, and then works inwards to turn the yolk into<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; the baby penguin. The chick even hatches with some yolk left inside its<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; stomach, to feed it during the first few days of life.<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt;<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; The only thing the egg lacks is oxygen and warmth. The egg shell is<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; sufficiently porous to allow oxygen to enter the egg, and for carbon dioxide<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; to be expelled. The adult penguin provides the warmth through incubation.<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; Cell growth requires the eggs to be kept within a certain temperature range,<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; and if eggs are left exposed for too long, they cool down too much and fail<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; to hatch.<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt;<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; The main predators here are foxes, armadillos and skuas (large brown<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; seagulls). However predators are rarely able to steal the eggs if the adult<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; is guarding the eggs carefully. Magellanic penguins are very tough and have<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; a fierce bite, which can cut the flesh down to the bone. Foxes and skuas<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; would not dare risk a fight with an adult Magellanic penguin, so they keep<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; well away from the nests if the penguin is on guard. They tend to circle<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; around the colony looking for careless penguins that have left the eggs<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; exposed for whatever reason.<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt;<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; For the next 7 weeks there will be very little activity in the colony except<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; for the changing over of the penguins as they take turns incubating the<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; eggs. We visit each nest every few days to ensure that all is well, and to<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; record any egg losses. In order to protect the penguins it is important to<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; measure the percentage of eggs lost and to record the causes of egg losses.<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; This important information is vital for protecting the penguins. Only by<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; gathering this kind of information can we detect any new problems early on.<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt;<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; Once the eggs hatch in December things will begin to happen more quickly.<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; The chicks grow very rapidly, increasing their weight 30 times in just 10<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; weeks, and I will keep you up to date with all the activity.<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt;<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; Emails can sometimes go astray, so if it ever goes beyond two months without<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; hearing from us, then let us know in case an update that we sent to you has<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; failed to arrive. I can resend anything that has been lost.<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt;<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; Adding our email address <a href=\"https:\/\/touchinganimalsouls.blogspot.com\/2021\/11\/mailto:mbingham@penguins.cl\">mbingham@penguins.cl<\/a> to your Approved Senders List<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; will help to ensure safe arrival of all our updates. This is especially<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; important if you use Hotmail or Outlook, which have been very unreliable<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; recently.<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt;<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; I will write to you again in December when the eggs have finally hatched,<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; with more information about your little adopted family.<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt;<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt; Kind regards,  Mike<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt;<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt;<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt;<br \/>\n<br \/>&gt;\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&gt; &gt; \ufeffDear PenguinPromises &gt; &gt; The penguins began arriving back in the colony in early October. The male &gt; penguins arrive about 10 days before the females, and gather on the beach &gt; waiting for the females to arrive. 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