Emperor Penguin

Imperial is the most popular of all the Penguins have a very distinctive.

Incubation

Penguins very specifically, she hatches the eggsApproximately 12 days after a female eliminates the egg, which weighs nearly half a kilogram. Eliminated them directly to your feet. After several hours, during which sings along with a partner, shall egg. He does it very slowly, gently, and multi-egg it must be put in the same place in the male, as in it. After that exploits the female returns to the sea, to renew their stocks of energy, yet it has lost about 25% of its mass, also like the male. The male, however, cannot eat - for about 2 months will be completely fasted egg. After about 65 days at the end of the young. For the colony, back then female, singing. When you answer her partner, the birds join in a few. Then the male gives the female chick has already hatched, and he returns to the sea to regenerate power. The male is lighter this time by an average of 40% - but before you eat, your first meal will still have to go 100-200 km, which will take him some time. If the female does not come back, it will be a male for some time fed his stock chick fat and protein. If the female does not come back after 10 days - will leave the chick and return to sea, otherwise it will from hunger - with chick.