Fighting between African penguins occurs occasionally and involves the beating of wings and biting.
Fighting between African penguins occurs occasionally and involves the beating of wings and biting. Often, a penguin can be observed chasing throughout the colony while clutching an opposing penguin’s back with his beak while beating the bird with his wings.
• Image | © Y Nakanishi, Some Rights Reserved (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
• Sources | (Crawford, et al., 2001, 2006; Frost, Siegfried, & Burger, 1976; Frost, Siegfried, & Cooper, 1976; Pearce, 2011)
