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Fwd: Merry Christmas from Promises

Merry Christmas from Promises  Dear PenguinPromises The eggs have hatched and there are now two beautiful baby penguins for Promises to take care of. Hatching out of the egg is hard work for the chicks. In children's cartoons the eggs just pop open and out jumps the chick, but it is not like that in real life for penguins. It takes many hours for a penguin chick to fight its way out of the egg. Penguins are heavy birds, so to prevent the eggs from breaking under the weight of Promises lying over them, the egg shell has to be strong and hard to break. That is good for stopping the eggs from breaking, but it is bad news for the chick inside trying to get out. The chick is also squeezed inside the egg and hardly has any space to move around. However the chick has been provided with a special tool that can help it escape. Inside the egg the chick has grown a little spike on the upper tip of its beak, which is called the 'Egg Tooth'. This spike has just one purpose; to make a h