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It's time. Post the critters you've found here. Get help with critter I.D. and chat about critters. Same rules as before: wild, living critters only (if you have photos of captive animals that you want to post, the bird and wildlife threads in The Dorkroom allow those). If you have I.D. questions about a dead critter, please post images as links. Happy crittering! Links to past Critterquest threads: 2016 2014/2015 2013 2012 Moon Potato fucked around with this message at 05:04 on Jan 26, 2017 |
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I recently got back from a trip to the bottom of the world and still have a ton of photos to work through, but here are some Gentoo Penguins and friends from the Antarctic Peninsula. They usually nest on rocky hills that have been smoothed over by glaciers, and build their nests from the pebbles deposited on the back side of the hill by the glacial flow. Nearly everything on the Antarctic Peninsula feeds on krill. The penguins there have barbed tongues to help capture the small crustaceans, which they later regurgitate for their chicks.  Theft of nesting materials is common, so fights break out between close neighbors fairly often.  Nonetheless, the whole colony joins together to fight off South Polar Skuas, which swoop in to try and knock chicks and eggs loose from the nests.  They wear deep trenches into the snow during their frequent feeding trips to the ocean.  They're fairly clumsy on land, but they're very quick swimmers and can cover large distances by 'porpoising' across the water's surface.  The chicks have to mature before the relatively mild Antarctic summer passes, so they grow pretty quickly.  Snowy Sheathbills, which eat penguin poop, can be found at most of the Gentoo Penguin rookeries. 
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Jan 25, 2017 05:48
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Hogge Wild posted:Here's the link to the 2016 thread: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3759659 Glad you all enjoy the penguins. Here are some Blue-eyed Shags while I work through the rest of my Antarctica/Chile photos.  
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Jan 26, 2017 05:06
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naem posted:Moon potato I still plan to use your photos as reference to do some drawings if that is o.k. They're as cute as they are invasive  Time for Chinstrap Penguins.  The ones at the first rookery we went to had tiny babbies.  They wore a huge maze of penguin highways into one hillside.  HI I'M HOME  Like the Gentoo Penguins, these guys build nests from pebbles too.  This one totally ate poo poo while jumping down from the rookery.  Once they're in the snow, the trip downhill goes pretty smoothly.  A Snowy Sheathbill interrupted a feeding to try to get some krill vomit for itself, but just ended up being snapped and honked at. 
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Feb 1, 2017 08:29
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