Little Penquins Colony
by Miroslava Jurcik
Title
Little Penquins Colony
Artist
Miroslava Jurcik
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
Little penguins living at Sea life aquarium in Sydney.
Hatched in 2004 is Pinksta (now mother)is known as the most trying penguin of the colony as she often displays restless behaviour. While playful for the most part, she is also a little wild as she often waddles around in a crazy manner, flicking sand at our keepers. However, Pinksta is also a mama penguin and when she pops her mum hat on, she quickly settles down, becoming extremely nurturing towards her chicks. Despite her craziness, Pinksta is also a very sensitive soul and spent a long time grieving when a previous partner passed away. (from Sea life Sydney website) and I think she is wearing orangy foot ring.
In the wild, Little Penguins have many natural predators, including seals and sharks in the water to reptiles and birds on land. Unfortunately, there are now increased threats to the survival of this protected species from domestic and feral animals (such as cats and foxes), to urban sprawl, which reduces the size of their natural habitat and then overfishing, which reduces the penguins’ food stocks.
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February 8th, 2018
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Darin Williams
Revisiting to admire this beautiful image! Looks like a retro impressionist piece! l/f/tw