Emperor Penguin Sister and her younger siblings

The latest research shows that due to the rising sea temperature, the food sharpness of rare emperor penguins is causing their habitat to deteriorate, and the survival rate is only 20%. Dalian Laohutan Ocean Park Polar Pavilion is the first artificial breeding base for emperor penguins in China, and 25-year-old girl Guo Hui has become the intimate sister of emperor penguins. She has been working as a penguin technician for nearly two years, writing a diary every day, recording the growth of the emperor penguin, accumulating more than 600 articles and nearly 30,000 words. She took more than 10,000 photos with the camera in her hand, and recorded the footprints of the penguins growing up with the camera.

Sister Penguin and her younger siblings

Kwan Jay

The emperor penguin, also known as the emperor penguin, grows in Antarctica and is the largest individual in the existing penguin family, generally more than 90 cm tall, the largest can reach 120 cm, and the weight can reach 50 kg. It is dressed in a large black and white dress, with a reddish-orange beak, an orange-yellow feather under the neck, which gradually fades downwards, the deepest part of the back of the ears, and the color of the whole body is coordinated.

When the beautiful girl Guo Hui studied animal science at Qingdao Agricultural University, she fell in love with the beautiful emperor penguin.

On April 16, 2009, Guo Hui went to the Polar Pavilion for an internship, which was her first close encounter with penguins. She loves these lovely babes too much. She often couldn't resist holding them and kissing them.

She decided to come here after graduation to work, and the head of the Polar Pavilion said, "Well, wow, we'll see how well you did in your internship, and if you're really good, we'll hire you." ”

The emperor penguin who has been sterile for many years has given birth to a baby, and the female college student has entered the polar pavilion for merit (subtitle)

At that time, the Polar Pavilion was actively creating conditions for the emperor penguins to lay eggs. Emperor penguins have been here for 7 years, but they have never laid eggs. From the experts, Guo Huimin learned that the reason is that animals need a period of adaptation to the new environment, especially polar animals, and there is no ready basis for adapting to the environmental conditions, and the people of the Polar Pavilion do not dare to do it without permission, and can only wait patiently. The second is the slow adjustment of the penguin's own resistance and disease resistance, which affects the reproductive function.

Guo Hui, together with the scientific and technological personnel in the museum, worked hard to restore the reproductive function of the emperor penguin. As much as possible, she collected some information on penguin breeding and breeding, as well as information on other animals, and combined it with the theoretical knowledge she learned in school. She exchanged and learned from the breeding experience of other species of penguins in foreign venues through the network, and then, together with her comrades, made some improvements to the breeding environment in the museum, made scientific research on temperature and humidity, ventilation, especially light, and systematically standardized in terms of bait selection and feeding.

By May 2010, Guo Hui had noticed that some of the mother emperor penguins were showing signs of breeding. She was ecstatic. She specially formulated a breeding period plan, in this plan, she carefully planned the bait, food intake, observation points of the emperor penguin before spawning, and then, to determine who the fixed mates are, according to these special circumstances, she added nutritional drugs before the mother emperor penguin lays eggs to ensure safe and healthy eggs.

In June of that year, Guo Hui returned to qingdao to write her graduation thesis. When she handed over China's first paper on the emperor penguin, the comrade of the Polar Pavilion called, "Great news, our emperor penguin has laid eggs." ”

Guo Hui flew back to Dalian by plane, and ran into the Polar Pavilion that night, she picked up the eggs and babies, and she burst into tears.

The leader of the Polar Pavilion said: "The emperor penguins have been in china for so many years, and the first time they laid eggs, it was you who brought them good luck. We decided to hire you. ”

"Great, thank you, I'm going to be with the emperor penguins, I love them, I want to be their good sister."

Mother Penguin Lets Her See Shocking Maternal Love (Subtitle)

After the female penguin lays her eggs, it is handed over to the male penguin to hatch, and then the female penguin goes out to forage, and after the baby penguin is born, it returns to feed as scheduled. During this period, the male penguins have to complete the hatching by themselves.

In 2010, after a penguin couple laid their eggs, something strange happened. The penguin father, who has always had a high sense of responsibility for the family, suddenly abandoned his child that day. A few days ago, it was still incubating well, but this day suddenly the egg was no longer needed, it was discarded on the ice, and it went into the water by itself, never to come back. According to the plan, Guo Hui picked up the baby egg and handed it to the mother penguin to hatch. After observing for a while, Guo Hui felt that the mother penguin was still hatching, and her hanging heart was also relaxed, but another worry came.

Female penguins are smaller than males, especially this penguin has always been thin, and after laying eggs, the appetite is not very good, and the body is more emaciated. For more than 60 days, it had to stand and hatch, which meant that it couldn't swim on its stomach, and all activities had to stop. Spend your energy there standing still. Will she survive these two difficult months?

In the following days, Guo Hui watched the mother penguin lose weight little by little, and her heart was extremely worried. She silently said to the mother penguin, "Mother penguin, you give up, we are really worried about your body." ”

What Guo Hui did not expect was that this "single mother" did not abandon the egg baby, it replaced the irresponsible father and undertook the incubation by herself.

It began to wait motionless for the baby egg, and due to the extreme weakness and tension of its body, it was almost losing weight every day, almost every day. Every time Guo Hui looked at it, it was a little nervous, as if it didn't have much confidence in the prospects, and it was even more helpless, but it was more motionless than the slightest, and it seemed to be waiting for sacrifice. At first, Guo Hui encouraged the single mother in her heart, but by the second month of incubation, it had completely stopped eating, and stood there alone to hatch penguin eggs, dutifully. Her heart was so painful, she wished it could give up hatching. However, every morning when she entered the hatching base, she could see the mother penguin standing there as she did yesterday, like a statue carved there. It's just that the body is obviously emaciated, like it's a big circle smaller than before. How many times, Guo Hui held on to the railing and wept sadly.

God forbid, two months later, the little penguin finally broke out of its shell and began to grow healthily. In those two months, it had a great shock to Guo Hui's inner world, and she felt the greatness of maternal love. She wrote in her diary: "Today the little penguin broke its shell, I don't know why, I always want to cry." The stupid penguin, who taught me so much in two months, taught me what is maternal love and what responsibility is. Nature, animals, and humans all have something in common. To be kind to animals is to be kind to ourselves..."

Since then, Guo Hui has become more fond of the Emperor Penguin.

Played with little penguins and recorded their growth with one stroke (subtitle)

This girl, who has loved animals since childhood, seems to have a special relationship with penguins. When she went to work at the Polar Pavilion, it was also when we in China were breeding penguins in Dalian.

The breeding season every year is the happiest time for Guo Hui, because at this time there will be a cute baby penguin.

She looked excitedly at the fluffy gray little ones, her eyes unblinking, and from time to time she let out a sigh of amazement. The little penguins also seem to know that there is a big sister watching them, and from time to time they sneak out of the eggshell to see the outside world, peck this and peck that, and occasionally nag with other babies. However, as soon as he heard a strange noise, he immediately ran back to his bag and hid, his ass facing outward, showing a very shy look. Such naivety, such clumsiness, whoever sees it will laugh.

The little penguins grew up and walked out of the eggshells, and Guo Hui took them to play every day. She circled the penguin dolls together, selected the big mom and dad to manage everyone, and then, fed them delicious food, taught them various movements, took the opportunity to take pictures and videos of their various forms, and when they were finished, washed out for them to see, and broadcast them on the TV to show them. The little penguins were very happy, cheering and jumping, and so on. Guo Hui specially prepared a growth diary for them, recording their physical changes, eating conditions, mental state every day...

Whenever Guo Hui found that one of the eyes had become larger and the fluff on her body had grown thicker, she would stand next to the baby and ask it, "Yo, how did you change your appearance?" "Are you a little girl, when you are older, you will start to change eighteen times." "Can you tell me before you change next time, don't surprise me all the time?" She felt as if they could understand, because when they spoke, they sometimes responded, "clucking, clucking" at Guo Hui, and then escaped.

The happiest time for Guo Hui is when it is time to feed them. Babies are getting older and their appetites are getting bigger and bigger, and the food that their mothers feed them is obviously not enough. Afraid that they were hungry, Guo Hui used a lot of brains, and finally made some easily digestible fish puree for them.

The little penguins are especially fond of eating, and simply do not eat what their mother feeds. One day, they saw Guo Hui come out with the fish mud, big and far away, they came running around, and their mouths kept screaming, and soon, they all gathered around Guo Hui, rubbing her with their bodies and pecking at her with their mouths, a look of impatience, like a child who had been hungry for several days. Guo Hui's heart was sweet. At this time, it is also the time when the penguins are the most obedient, Guo Hui goes where they follow, let them do what they do, they do. As long as Guo Hui's hands moved, they all brushed and moved in unison.

Sometimes, Guo Hui likes to tease penguins. The penguins have a strong appetite, she holds the fish in her hand, they surround her, and ignore her when there is no fish. Sometimes for a fish, the penguins rush each other, and finally the fish is torn to the point where there is not much meat left, but they are still rushing to play. What's more interesting is that Guo Hui will also do various fake actions for them, empty-handed, pretending to throw fish into the water, and some of the more stupid penguins will "pounce" and "pounce" into the water. However, the next time they deceive them, it will not be very smart, only one or two jump down, more mathematical clever, their heads and eyes will stare at Guo Hui's hand deadly. This is the IQ of penguins. "Well, babies, sister don't tease you, come, come and eat obediently", and then she will hear a strong penguin language, "clucking" and "clucking".

That day, Guo Hui wrote in his diary: "It seems that penguins have language, how do I teach them?" She remembered the movies "The Emperor Penguin Diaries" and "Happy Bigfoot", where the penguins talked. She decided to start tomorrow and teach the Emperor Penguins to speak.

Teach a talking little penguin (subtitle)

In the spring of 2011, Guo Hui discovered a small emperor penguin with a particularly developed "language system", whose name was "featherless angel"

When the "featherless angel" was born, his whole body was red and there was no feather, which frightened its parents, and the parents and geese exchanged ears for a few days and left it alone.

The emperor penguin is a particularly "human" animal, emphasizing monogamy, stable family structure, and knowing how to respect the old and love the young. Generally, there is no abandonment of the old and the young, and the abandonment of the "featherless angel" is an exception. Guo Hui wrote in his diary: "The featherless angel is probably treated as a monster by his parents. ”

Parents don't want it, only the sister wants it.

Guo Hui decided to raise the "featherless angel" herself, and she arranged the "featherless angel" in a special room and artificially raised it. Accompany it 24 hours a day, feeding, observing, taking pictures, taking videos...

The "featherless angel" soon developed feelings for his sister Guo Hui, and could not leave her sister. Captive-bred emperor penguins are often less compatible with brothers and sisters in their families, and the emperor penguins that live in groups generally do not interact with such emperor penguins. The Featherless Angel is lonely. Guo Hui had no choice but to accompany it.

Didn't Guo Hui want to teach the Emperor Penguin to speak? This "featherless angel" was her first student. The "featherless angel" is too able to say, and it is endless to talk about it all day long. Guo Hui decided to be the first to teach it.

That day, early in the morning, Guo Hui took the initiative to ask it: "Have you eaten, have you eaten, have you ever thought of your parents?" The featherless angel looked at her in shock, his eyes seemed to be thoughtful, his head was gently swinging, and his mouth was moving with it.

Guo Hui felt that there was a door. Since then, she has been talking to the "featherless angel" every day, stimulating its language nerves every day.

Slowly, Guo Hui found that she was not so snoozing, as soon as it heard Guo Hui's call, it staggered to her, "clucking" and screaming, usually 4 sounds, and then, it calmed down to listen to Guo Hui, listened, tilted its small head for a while, and then it called 4 more. It was repeated like this, slowly, Guo Hui's words, it could understand. Guo Hui could understand its words. When I was hungry, the tone was more urgent, and the voice was louder, and the eyes were full of anticipation. Not much nonsense. When you are full, you have more words, and the first few sentences are more grateful, and sometimes you will send out the word "sister" that Guo Hui has worked hard to teach it. Because it is too laborious, this monosyllabic word, it only needs to be spoken after eating the fish puree. The others are all replaced by "giggles", one "giggles" indicates recognition or affirmation, and two are accentuated tones, equivalent to more than three "yes" in human language, which is a strong feeling, and every time at this time, it must be accompanied by a large number of actions, and even spin and jump a circle of simple actions in Guo Huijiao's "Swan Lake"

Guo Hui's personal secret, the "Featherless Angel" knows the most. If she had any worries, she had to chat with the "featherless angel", and the "featherless angel" listened carefully, first silent and then nodded. Sometimes, seeing that she was still not happy after speaking, he ran over to rub her until she reached out and stroked its head.

Once, Guo Hui and his family had some unpleasant troubles, and no one could say anything, and it was still unbearable to hold in his heart. Listening to her colleagues talk about so many happy and happy things, her heart was even more uncomfortable. She couldn't take it anymore, so she went to see the penguins. So, Guo Hui changed into her overalls and walked into the penguin house, because the temperature inside was very low, and as soon as she entered the door, she suddenly felt refreshed. The Featherless Angel ran over quickly, and Guo Hui desperately opened the conversation box and stood there excitedly. I don't know how long later, Guo Hui felt a little tired, so he squatted down and continued to speak.

Suddenly, she found that the "featherless angel" ran out and led a group of small penguins. She understood that the "featherless angel" was to let everyone judge and judge, and what was particularly interesting was that the other little penguins also listened to the "featherless angel" as sensibly, did not interject a word, did nothing, and just looked at Guo Hui. Guo Hui was shocked, Oh my God, can they really understand me?

Guo Hui's tears suddenly came down, "Babies, can you really understand my words?" Do you really understand me? ”

When Guo Hui said this, the topic turned and said: "Thank you, I said it, and my heart was happy." ”

Hearing her say this, the "featherless angel" took the lead and stood upright, and clapped and said, "Cluck and cluck" Guo Hui understood it at once, and it said: "Okay, it's all right." The other little penguins stuttered along, but not so much.

Guo Hui burst into tears and smiled.

A lifetime with the Emperor Penguin is her ideal (subtitle)

In these two years, the Polar Pavilion has given Guo Hui a great platform for development. In the study of penguins, she has accumulated a large amount of information. With a diary of more than 30,000 words, more than 10,000 pictures, and videos, she could have written several monographs.

Guo Hui said, that is early, my research is a lifelong career. In recent years, whenever a new colleague reports, he has to say that the penguin has a strange and unpleasant smell, which is simply unbearable. Guo Hui listened, always laughing and saying, "How come I can't smell it?" My babies are all big beauties, good-looking and hygienic. ”

It's not that Guo Hui's nose is not sensitive, but that she loves the emperor penguin too much. Guo Hui never felt that the emperor penguins were dirty, never felt any bad smell from them. In Guo Hui's eyes and in Guo Hui's heart, penguins are always so beautiful, pure and clean.