Of course, humans are not the only creatures with the ability to communicate. Although governed more by instinct, animals also have some remarkable forms of communication. For example, courting emperor penguins in icy Antarctica go through their annual prewinter ritual of hooting at each ther but not for fun. The life of each couple's feature chick is involved. How so?
After laying her egg, the female releases it to her mate to incubate in his brood pouch while she goes to sea to feed. About 65 days later, she returns, having wafddled and slid o her bely across
the ice for up to 150 kilometers. Finding the colony miracle in itself, but how does she find her mate and their newly hatched chick among tens of thousands of hooting emperors? During their courtship each bird memorizes the other's songs so well that even after months of seperation, they manage to find each other!
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