Photo of the Day

Picture of an adult penguin regurgitating food into the mouth of a chick
January 20, 2022

Fast Food

In Antarctica, a gentoo penguin chick receives a meal of regurgitated krill and small fish from a parent penguin. Gentoo penguins choose nesting sites inland, away from ice.
Photograph by Maria Stenzel, Nat Geo Image Collection

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