Chinstrap vs Gentoo A Penguin Battle Royale
A Chinstrap penguin and Gentoo penguin get into battle for territory on Aitcho Island in Antarctica. I watched these two for quite a while as they went back and forth. In the end there was no clear winner.
Chinstrap Penguin vs Gentoo Penguin
A Chinstrap penguin and a Gentoo get into a Battle Royale in Antarctica
What is the star of Antarctica? The Penguin of course. You will see so many penguins when visiting the seventh continent. One would think that you would tire of seeing the many chinstrap and gentoo penguins of Antarctica, but you don’t. Yes they smell awful and you will be covered with penguin pooh when you return to the ship, but they are the most adorable creatures that you can never tire of seeing them. So this week, we thought we’d feature Antarctica photos would be the battle royale of the Chinstrap penguin and Gentoo Penguin. Can you see the difference?
The chinstrap penguin has the strap on its face. See that little line? That looks like a chinstrap to me. The Gengoo Penguins are one of the most common penguins you’ll see, they’re the ones with the black head. So enjoy our attempt at posting a photo of the day. It’s a first in our series.
National Geographic does it so why can’t ThePlanetD?
We thought long and hard about this. We never wanted to become a photo of the day type of blog taking the easy way out by posting a photo each day instead of writing articles, so we decided that it’s ok to post a photo a day as long as we keep writing and that is exactly what we plan on doing.
You’ll have my ramblings in the mornings and Dave’s photos in the afternoon.
It’s a Double D Daily Delight!
We hope you like it.
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Can never get enough of Dave’s photos
Could this shot be ANY better? Wonder what they’re talking about???
That’s something that we thought about a lot. Penguins are so curious, I think that they are chatting away to one another all day long.
“I told you to watch the egg. You never do as I say.”
“But, honey… The guys said we’d only be gone 15 minutes.”
That is a great caption Lane, we should have made this a “Caption this post!” Keep em coming:)
Interestingly, among penguins, it’s the male who guards the egg while the female is gallivanting about in the ocean all winter long…
Double or triple your travels and cut the number of people in half, then doing a daily photo doesn’t seem like an easy way out
Hey Gary, I definitely wasn’t pointing fingers at anyone on this post. We think daily travel photos are awesome and readers love them but for us, I think a daily photo is a great addition to our blog above and beyond the articles. If we started putting up 3 or 4 photos of the day each week, we’d be letting ourselves down. We are extremely lucky to be working as a couple and we never take that for granted. I am thankful that Dave and I can split the workload. When I said the easy way out, I meant it towards us. It would be the easy way out for Dave and I. However I should have chosen my words better to not make it look like I looked down on blogs that put out a photo of the day. I love looking at photographs and I’m happy to check out photos of the day each day, it just isn’t something that we choose to do and it would be an easy thing for us to put up 3-4 photos of the day each week rather than write articles.
I’m just bowled over by the fantastic photos I’ve been seeing posted today… and this is no exception! Stunning use of contrast.
Thanks ou Caitlin, much appreciated.
Ahhh, that penguin looks evil!! Or just really, really mean.
Haha, or as evil as a cute penguin can be