Cate Reilly, Feed me! (ANIMALS 2024)

A juvenile King Penguin (Aptenodytes patagonicus), still covered in fluffy brown down, pesters its parent for food. The King Penguin's breeding cycle is some 13 months, from egg to a juvenile ready to go out to sea. Exhausting! Volunteer Point, Falkland Islands/Islas Malvinas. December 2022.

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