Show NESTING G HABITS OF PENGUIN Both Male and Female Care for Eggs Hatched In Nest That Is Slipshod Slipshod Slip Slip- shod Affair During nesting time the penguins on the frozen ice fields of the South pole live In big c colonies onles not far from the water The nest Is an as untidy affair consisting of pebbles laid to form a hollow and Is carefully built by both Mr and Mrs Penguin There are two e eggs gs and both birds care for them When Miss Penguin wishes to take a husband she signifies the fact b by sitting on one o oft last years year's nests and waiting for her admirers to pay her court This is done b by approach approach- approaching ing h her r with an offering of a peb pebble pebble ble the sign alga of the new home The pebbles she accepts for her new home homenU all nU belong to one bird l and this bird birdIs Is her mate Often there are bitter discussions as to the right of suitors and much whirling of ot flappers and sometimes nasty beak bites It Is remarkable the part that a pebble plays plus In the lives of these birds and birds and l no Incident could be more Interesting than that of the bird which finding a South pole explorer on Its beach and believing he must be some new dweller of ot the frozen shore led carried a pebble and dropped It at the mans man's feet evidently as a n sign of friendliness Equally human Is the action of a flock fiock of penguins in ende endeavoring l to stop a n fight between two rival birds The peacemakers do not enter Into the quarrel In any way but push themselves between the fighters and part them |