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Wildlife Photo: Gentoo Penguin on the Run

 

Wildlife Photo - Gentoo Penguin
Gentoo Penguin Running around on Deception Island, off the coast of Antarctica

 

Happy World Penguin Day!

April 25th is known as World Penguin Day, so for this #wildlifewednesday image I’ve chosen one of my favourite penguin pictures from my travels to Antarctica.

This little guy was photographed near the shore at Deception Island, a popular stop for visitors to the South Shetland Islands and Antarctic Peninsula. I found the Gentoo Penguins to be the most ‘friendly’ of the penguins in Antarctica. Chinstrap Penguins had a strangely evil look to them and I thought that Adelie Penguins had some sort of superiority complex about them.

Perhaps that sounds crazy, but if you spent much time with penguins you’d probably go slightly crazy too…!