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The Penguins: Eggs
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There is little distinction between male and female African penguins, although the male is slightly larger and has a longer bill than the female. Penguins are usually about 4 years old when they begin breeding. African penguins will remain with a single partner for many years, producing one or two eggs a year. They only separate normally if breeding has failed for some reason. They can breed at any time of the year, but the Boulders population tends to breed in March to May. The incubation period lasts forty days, and the fledging period from 60 to 130 days.
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Pass the Egg: This trust exercise is based on the penguins passing their egg, female to male. Pair up members of your group, and give each pair a tennis ball and a permanent marker. Ask each person to write the name of a person they love on the ball so that each ball has two names. Now imitate the penguins and pretend the ball is an egg representing someone precious. Couples should stand facing each other with feet together, with one member balancing the ball on his/her feet. They must try to pass the ball from the first person to the second person and back again, using only their feet.
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The Adelie penguins leave behind bones, eggs, waste, and other debris during the return to their nesting site every year. Because of the frozen temperature, the debris is basically perfectly preserved. With the data that he was able to obtain through this, Steven Emslie has written an article on the effects of climate change to Adelie penguins throughout history.
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In order to resist the blizzard, the emperor penguins regroup in a turtle formation. They bunch up together, head to head. These big penguins are compressed against each other, and the formation undulates slowly: to avoid having the same individuals fighting against the wind all the time, the formation swirls around like a snail. Imperceptibly, the ones at the center find themselves on the edges, and vice versa. All this is done very gently, because in addition to the dealing with the violence of the winds and the uneven ice, they need to keep their balance, holding their egg on their feet, while walking on their heels.
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Penguins reproduce by laying eggs. The female and male mate. They stay together for the rest of their twenty successful mating years. The female lays about two eggs at a time. The eggs are oval, white, and about three inches long. When the females lay the eggs, they lay the eggs in a nest. The nests are made out of pampas grass and leaves.
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Penguins are very social animals, breeding in groups or in large noisy colonies called rookeries. They mate on shore in spring - almost always with the same partner. Penguins lay 1 or 2 eggs, though usually only 1 chick is reared.
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