Touching Animal Souls

Dear PenguinPromises The moult is finally over, and now Promises and friends have left the colony and are heading towards Brazil to spend the winter. The colony is now completely abandoned and will remain so until October. The colony has mild weather during the summer, but in the winter it gets very cold. What is worst for the penguins is that the days get very short and gloomy in winter, and Promises cannot see so well under the water to catch fish. The nearer to the pole one gets, the greater the difference in daylight between summer and winter. During the early 1990s I worked with sea turtles for the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. In Hawaii there is only about an hour difference in daylight between summer and winter, because Hawaii is much nearer to the equator than the pole. Here in the penguin colony we are much closer to the pole than the equator, and the difference between winter and summer is large. We have a difference comparable with northern Alaska or northern ...