Watch your pebbles!
I took this series of pictures on Cuverville Island, where I saw a pebble-stealing penguin (penguin nests are made of pebbles).From the nest of his wife, a (male) penguin looks around to find nests with female penguins whose husbands went out for fishing. The penguin walks to such a nest and steals a pebble. The (female) victims can't defend themselves, as they can not leave their nest because of the eggs (or small chicks). The nests are usually too large to defend from the center. After stealing the pebble, the penguin walks back to his wife's nest, holding the pebble in his mouth.The lesson from this story is: watch your wife's pebbles if she is pregnant and you are visiting Antarctica!
