The Great Penguin Rescue: Saving the African Penguins
TABLE OF CONTENTS Alone 4 Penguins in Trouble 10 From Bad to Worse 16 Turning Point 26 Raising the Future 30 Giving Hope a Home 34 Rescued 38 Saving Other Penguins 42 Author's Note 43 Did You Know 44 Timeline 45 Source Notes 46 Glossary 46 Find Out More 47 Index 48
Even though this penguin still has her downy chick coat she's already nearly adult height Alone On a mild June evening a three month old female African penguin chick wiggles out of her family's nest under a tree She straightens up tall and moans in short bursts over and over It's the way a penguin chick says I'm hungry Please feed me Her nesting colony in South Africa is full of activity at this time of year full of breeding pairs raising chicks And each evening the adults come ashore after feeding all day in the South Atlantic Ocean When this little female's parents return from the ocean with food in their bellies they'll find her and bring up partly digested fish from their stomachs for her to eat But they're not back yet so she sits waits outside the nest and
Adult African penguins spend most of their time in the water except when they come ashore to nest and raise chicks or to molt shed and replace their feathers Shadows knit together Other chicks are nearby waiting by their nests too At last donkey like brays fill the air as the adult African ocean penguins return from the
