Another big personality in the home pen.
Elvis is probably the friendliest of the bunch.
And the most criminal, he regularly raids the nests of the others for rocks and plant matter.
We are entering a period where multiple birds are molting.
Also, turns out heavies are what you get when a penguin starts molting. They'll... expand for extra warmth and energy.
Currently there are two temporarily living in home pen, the one from my previous posts and now this colossus.
Batmann defiantly guards a patch of ground that I needed to till.
I volunteer for SANCCOB (Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds) twice a week. One of the jobs I'm often given is tending to the Home Pen.
While they tend to all manner of seabirds, the African Penguin is the primary focus, especially with how the current numbers are looking. But it was founded on the idea of protecting our penguins.
I won't go into the full history here, instead I thought it would be fun to kind of spotlight some of the personalities we have there.
Batmann is one of the older penguins that lives in here.
She's lived here since 2013. She was brought in covered in oil, and while in their care, they found out she was blind and made the choice to put her in the home pen since her survival chances were low at best.
Despite her blindness Batmann is extremely curious.
On my first day working home pen she first refused to leave a patch of ground I needed to turn over, she followed me around for the rest of my shift. And that's pretty much how it's been since April.
She doesn't really participate in the mayhem that the others cause, preferring to stand off to the side and maybe dig a little hole.
Though she might also be actively trying to tunnel her way out, I just haven't been able to prove it or catch her in the act yet.
*Edit:
She looks a little moldy because she's recently gone through a molt.
*Edit2:
Fixed some gibberish.
