Stop whatever you ’re doing and watch this , because it ’s preposterously cute .
On July 2 , a Twitter user uploaded a video of two penguins accommodate deal as they digest on the beach together , and multitude
loved
it .
And who would n’t ? The video is objectively the fresh matter ever . Watch this and severalise me your centre did n’t melt .
ADORABLE , correct ? !
But some commenters seemed a trivial confused by what they saw , so permit ’s get some fact cleared up .
1 . First things first : yes , penguin live in Africa .
Or at least , they dofor now . To be specific , they live in Namibia , South Africa , and the befittingly - namedPenguin Islands .
Only one species of penguin lives anywhere in Africa , so we know the penguins in the video are almost certainly African penguins – also known as fathead penguin ( yes , really ! )
One of the most famous penguin colonies in Africa is onBoulders Beachin Cape Town , South Africa , where between 2 - 3,000 of the short guys absorb crew of tourist to see them relax by the ocean . Since 1998 , Boulders Beach has been a protect marine sphere in Table Mountain National Park – which is peculiarly well as African penguins are an endangered species .
2 . Yes , this is exceedingly cunning because these penguins mate for life .
Both parents partake in adequate duty for incubating eggs , and after their chicks are about a month old , they drop them off in penguin daycare – the expert term is a crèche – while they both go out into the sea to find nutrient .
However , not all penguins mate for living . Some species , such as theEmperororAdeliepenguin , are serially monogamous – they are faithful for one breeding Hz , and then see a new partner for the next .
3 . Yes , penguins can be gay .
There have been many model of same - sex penguin couples . You may call back proud fathersJumbs and Kermit , or penguin renown Roy and Silo . There ’s a zoo in Germanywhose 10 penguin couples admit three who are same - sexual practice , andlast yeara gay penguin duad in China were so keen to start a family they were caught stealing eggs from the other breeding pairs .
If that storm you – well , it should n’t , as homosexual behaviour has been observed inover 450 animal speciesand consider worldwide .
However , African penguin only have very slight remainder between males and females , so we probably wo n’t discover out if the yoke in the video is same or opposite sexual practice . Sorry about that .
4 . Finally – yes , these penguins are totally family relationship goals .
Who knew penguin could give us such wiseness ?
