Gelong

This is the favourite yellow-eyed penguin for a very special penguin friend who has sponsored him. He is a young male, a juvenile just starting to moult about a month ago when his sponsorship came through. He stayed more or less in the same spot for his moult so he was easy to follow up week after week while he was going from fat and grey headed to scruffy to slim and with a fancy yellow line. He is now an adult and will be commanding a little bit more respect from the adult males as he is now proper competition for the girls. He has his work cut out though if he wants to breed. At 2 years old his chances are slim so he probably will concentrate on carving out his territory in the colony, claiming a nest box and then see if he can persuade a pretty girl to come and move in with him. He seems to like it in our colony so if he sticks around we will be able to follow his progress over the next years! Thank you to his kind sponsor - we will keep you posted!

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