When chick is old enough, King Penguins put it in one of the crèches, returning every several days with food. Both parents will leave at the same time. All the chicks in the rookery will stay together until their parents return. When the parents come home they recognize chicks by the sound of their voices. Despite the thousands of youngsters crowded together on this plain in South Georgia, the parents are incredibly able to locate their youngsters by detecting their individual calls. This picture was taken at Salisbury Plain, on shoreline of South Georgia, a British territory in the Southern Ocean some 1500km South-East from Falklands. ... There still some time to jump on board of Wild Photo Travel November 2015 South Georgia Expedition Please contact me via email photo@mikereyfman.com for more info or click on link above and use built-in feature to get funny translation) via 500px http://ift.tt/1DuV4rM
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