A 'criminal' stone-stealing Adelie penguin has been captured on camera by a BBC film crew. The footage they captured shows a male penguin stealing stones from its neighbour's nest.
The birds build their stone nests to elevate and protect their eggs from run-off when the Antarctic ice melts. Males with the best nests are more likely to attract a mate, so, in a colony of half a million penguins, the best stones are highly prized.
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(via BBC Nature News)
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