Adélie penguin

Building a nest out of small pebbles is vital to keep eggs elevated and dry for melting ice.

Female Adelies have been heavily documented seeking out single males with a high number of stones, mating with them, and then returning to their original nest carrying a stone pebble as payment.

Nigga, penguin prostitution.

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Now, since 2009, that first visit, they're getting like flooding rains, torrential.

There were two, one a Delhi penguin colony, I'm forgetting the name of the island at the moment, that about four or five years ago, they had two seasons in a row where there were 40,000 breeding pairs with chicks, or no, it was 80,000.

Might have been 80,000.

80,000, yeah.

That's such a great way.

I always say because the Adelie comes up a lot and I like the Adelies because they look so mischievous.

But now that you're putting the words like so spiteful into a rock hopper, I can see that it lives there.

That's a great response.

They are the most abundant.

They are very charismatic and they would probably be the most common sighting.

If you're a little bit luckier because they nest a little bit further south and a little bit further north, you can see some of the Adelies as well.

And the Chinstraps tend to be about a little bit more in the South Shetland Islands and some spots in the peninsula.

Yeah.

So, so what happens is he comes back and he publishes his two major accounts of the Adelie penguin.

One is the, is Antarctic Penguins, the other is in the official scientific reports for the expedition.

He then...

So what was happening was that the Natural History Museum was the coordinator of the scientific results of the expedition.

And what seems to have happened is that Levick submits to the museum committee this paper titled The Sexual Habits of the Adelie Penguin, in which he goes into graphic detail of sexual coercion and sexual violence, uh, and homosexual behavior, and what he considers to be necrophilia.

So anyway, he, he submits this and then in 1915, Sydney Harmer, who was then the keeper of zoology, basically writes to one of my predecessors in the bird group at the Natural History Museum and says, "We will have this cut out, um, but we will print 100 copies," is the decision.

So what that tells us is that although it wasn't published as part of the scientific reports, 100 copies of that paper were seemingly printed and were distributed to scientists of the day.