【思琪闯南极】专访企鹅专家 Will Wagstaff

Anchor: Talking about Antarctica, the first thing coming to your mind maybe penguins. Many of our listeners are very curious about this lovely bird, and asked various questions about penguins on weibo and wechat. Penguin is a species of birds. This is the basic knowledge of penguins. Xiong Siqi sat with Will Wagstaff, an expert on birds who’s been in Antarctica seven times, to talk about the special birds - penguins. 1. My first question is “What’s the life span of penguins?” 2. And when is their mating time? 3. Since when do young penguins start to leave their parents? 4. I saw them hesitate a lot before their first diving. 5. One of the questions is how does the adult find its young on the nest? 6. I heard penguins often change partners, right? 7. So far on this cruise, we’ve seen three species of penguin, Gentoo penguin, Adelie penguin and chinstrap penguin. What are the characteristics of these penguins? How can we tell them? 8. It seems Adelie penguins are more noisier compared to other species. I found they never stop. They always keep walking and jumping.