Adélie penguins, Antarctica Oct 5, 2026

Adélie penguins, Antarctica

What can a 70-centimetre-tall bird teach us about life? Quite a lot. The Adélie penguin offers a lesson plan packed with resourcefulness, resilience and a little mischief. Found along the Antarctic coast, the species was named after Adèle, the wife of French explorer Jules Dumont d"Urville, during the expedition that encountered the penguins in 1840.

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