If Adelie's are cute, and Gentoos are goofy, then Chinstraps are the old curmudgeons of the Pygoscelis genus. They have a braying song/call that sounds like a donkey. Wiki has some interesting facts about them:
"Chinstrap penguins are generally considered to be the most aggressive and ill-tempered species of penguin.[8]
Chinstrap penguins microsleep over 10,000 times a day and accomplish this in 4 second bouts of sleep. The sleep can be both bihemispheric and unihemispheric slow-wave sleep. The penguins accumulate over 11 hours of sleep for each hemisphere daily"
Here is one having a micro-nap.
Nap over!
The Colony we visited was massive.
Zoom in and you can see they literally blanket the hills going way up.
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