While the females spend two months at sea feeding, their mates care for the eggs. The male balances his precious cargo on his feet, tucked beneath a fold of skin called the brood pouch. Penguins on ...

the chicks are already being encouraged to make friends," she says over footage of one baby penguin squealing at another to come out of their mom's brood pouch. "Their mothers bring them face to ...

Male Emperor Penguins protect their eggs by covering them with feathered skin known as a brood pouch. While they do this, they will not eat for up to four months. The male will survive simply on ...

Unlike other birds, male emperor penguins do not sit on their eggs ... warm by cradling it on his feet and covering it with his brood pouch, a layer of feathered skin used just for this purpose.

Seahorse dads carry eggs from the mum in a special brood pouch and incubate them for around ... Throughout the bitter Antarctic winter, emperor penguin dads keep a single egg balanced on top ...