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In the ' rookery ' the birds stand a little apart from one another, and there is just room for the continual 

 going and coming of the parents with food. If one of the hatching birds moves too much and comes near 

 another parent, the two fight fiercely until one moves away out of reach. King Penguins use their flippers 

 almost entirely for fighting, the beaks playing a very small part in encounters. 



There seems to be a natural system for preventing the little ones from getting lost in the ' rookery.' As 

 every parent pecks a wandering one directly it comes within range, the chicken soon realises that there is only 

 one spot on earth safe for him, and that is with his own mother — so he promptly turns back and is gathered up 

 again into the loving folds of her pouch. . . . 



KING PENGUIN HATCHING ITS EGG. 



When they are hungry they go out to sea to fish, and owing to the never-ending appetites of countless 

 Penguins, they have to go a long distance away. Watching from the shore, these birds can be seen returning 

 far away on the crest of a wave, where they are just distinguishable by the white dots of surf they make 

 in swimming. Their swimming is so swift, that the next minute they are among the breakers, and landing and 

 shaking themselves at our feet. 



All Penguins have the same ingenious method of tackling the heavy seas which are always to be found on 

 these coasts. They keep looking round, and as the wave is about to break over them, they face it and dive 

 under, in time to avoid being knocked dizzy by the falling water. 

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