Baby Penguins
Did you know that some some penguins will mate for life, but others choose their mates just for one season. Regardless, penguin parents usually work together to take care of their little baby penguins until the babies are grown. The male penguin is actually the one responsible for incubating the baby penguin egg until it hatches.
I am amazed at how adult penguins take care of their baby penguins in the extreme cold that some of them live in with such harsh conditions. When baby penguins are hatched, they are covered with a grayish-colored down that protects the babies from the cold as much as possible.
During their nesting period, baby penguins stay in the nest where they are fed by their parents. At a certain point, when the parents determine that their baby penguins are at an age where they don’t require constant supervision and care from their parents, they are sometimes grouped in "nurseries" with other baby penguins and they stay in the nursery while their parents are out hunting for food. What's really neat, is that the parents and baby penguins both have no problem recognizing each other among hundreds of other penguins. I think that's awesome.
When a baby penguin loses its soft downy feathers and gets its adult feathers (plumage), it can then begin to be more independent from it's parents and start to take care of itself.