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The Challenges Of Raising Penguin Chicks | 20 Years of Planet Earth | BBC Earth
The Challenges Of Raising Penguin Chicks | 20 Years of Planet Earth | BBC Earth
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A group of chicks has got lost in the
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blizzard.
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Reunited at last,
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the mother sees her chick for the first
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time.
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She's keen to start parenting,
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but the father needs persuading to
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surrender the chick he's been caring for
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all winter.
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He must now put his chick at risk. In
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these temperatures, it could freeze in
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seconds.
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The male will have to let go.
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Eventually, the transfer to the mother
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is safely made.
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The chicks grow quickly on a diet of
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fish and squid.
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soon they're keen to explore, but always
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with mother in tow.
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This chick is less fortunate. Its mother
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has not returned to claim it. Another
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orphan is searching for a new family,
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but this female already has a chick of
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her own.
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Some orphans receive too much mothering
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from penguins whose own chicks have not
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survived. The urge to parent is so
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strong that they will compete with one
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another to adopt any chick they find.
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Many of these squables end in tragedy as
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the poor chick is trampled to death.
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Those chicks that do have parents
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quickly learn survival skills.
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Even in spring, they must huddle
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together for warmth, just as their
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fathers did in the depths of winter.
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A group of chicks has got lost in the
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blizzard.
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Cold and disorientated, they search for
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the colony.
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It will not be long before the storm
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claims its first victims.
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By early summer, the chicks are
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surprisingly welldeveloped
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and now look ready to take on the world.
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Those that survive their first year have
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the best possible start in life thanks
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to the extraordinary hardships endured
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by their parents.
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parents who battled with the Antarctic
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winter and One
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