Little Penguin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nThe Little Penguin is much like other penguins in that they usually mate for life.\u00a0 The female will normally lay two eggs into a self-dug burrow which both parents will incubate over the following month.\u00a0 Many times only one of the eggs will hatch and will cause the parents to blame each other for ruining the other egg.\u00a0 Okay, they obviously don’t bicker like that, well I don’t think they do.\u00a0 Once the baby Penguin is born the parents will feed it and keep it warm for about 3 months. I don’t know what it is about penguins but I find all species to be very fascinating.\u00a0 I hope you enjoyed today’s Wild Fact.\u00a0 I am off to enjoy the rest of my day off.\u00a0 I love long weekends!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It is Sunday night and I am dying of heat here in the Yukon so I thought to help beat the summer sun I would write a post about a true winter bird, the Little Penguin.\u00a0 But wait!\u00a0 This particular penguin lives in New Zealand, Australia and some have even been recorded in Chile.\u00a0 I don’t think those places are nearly cold enough to give me a reprieve from my summer heat. Oh well, we are this far into the fact so we might as well continue. As you may have guessed the Little Penguin also known as the Fairy <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4024],"tags":[348,1069,1070,1068,4025,405,985,1071],"yoast_head":"\n
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