pic #oftheday: odd one out

Photograph by David Schultz via National Geographic.

Strikingly colored, an adult king penguin stands out in a sea of chicks on South Georgia Island.

I thought someone had photoshopped strange manifestations of upright kiwi birds around this poor, bewildered king penguin. Who knew the babies were so big and brown?

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