Touching Animal Souls

Dear PenguinPromises The eggs have finally hatched, and your penguin now has two tiny baby penguins in the nest. At the moment the chicks are too small and fragile to send you a photo of them, as you will know from previous years. When the chicks are so small they need very little food. Their main requirements are warmth and protection, so they spend most of their time hiding underneath Promises. Trying to take photos of the nervous chicks hiding in the nest under the parents would just cause disturbance, and would be unlikely to result in good photos. So for now I attach a photo of another nest, where two chicks were visible for us to take a photo without causing any disturbance. Even so I barely managed to get the head. In January the chicks will begin leaving the nest for short periods of time, to stretch and to do flipper exercises, enabling us to get good photos of all the chicks. There are two chicks in the attached photo, one has its head tucked inside the burrow, a