Image of the Day: One of These Things

An image of an adult penguin in a crowd of youngsters wins the top prize of an ecology photography competition.

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ABOVE: An adult king penguin (Aptenodytes patagonicus) among chicks on Marion Island
© CHRIS OOSTHUIZEN, UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA AND BRITISH ECOLOGICAL SOCIETY

The British Ecological Society announced the winners of its annual photography competition today (November 30), with the first place overall honoring an image of a lone adult penguin walking among hundreds of fuzzy chicks. The photographer, Chris Oosthuizen, a postdoc at the University of Pretoria, had been visiting Marion Island of the Prince Edward Islands to study seals and killer whales.

“Although the global population of king penguins is large, populations inhabiting islands around the Antarctic face an uncertain future. Global climate change may shift the oceanic fronts where they feed further away from breeding sites, forcing penguins to travel farther to reach their foraging grounds,” Oosthuizen says in a press release.

The winning pictures will be featured in a public exhibition in London in January.

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    Kerry Grens

    Kerry served as The Scientist’s news director until 2021. Before joining The Scientist in 2013, she was a stringer for Reuters Health, the senior health and science reporter at WHYY in Philadelphia, and the health and science reporter at New Hampshire Public Radio. Kerry got her start in journalism as a AAAS Mass Media fellow at KUNC in Colorado. She has a master’s in biological sciences from Stanford University and a biology degree from Loyola University Chicago.

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