• Question: What is your favourite kind of penguin?

    Asked by anon-193414 to iainstaniland on 12 Nov 2018.
    • Photo: Iain Staniland

      Iain Staniland answered on 12 Nov 2018:

      My Favorite penguin would have to be the Macaroni penguin. They are the one with a crest of yellow feathers see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaroni_penguin

      On Bird Island where I do a lot of my work there is a colony 80,000 of these penguins called “big mac”. As you can imagine it is very smelly and very very noisy.
      They are my favorite as although they are quite small they are very brave, and will defend their chicks against much larger animals. They are also very tough and can survive being thrown against the rock by the waves when they are trying to get ashore.

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