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There are only two species of penguins and four species of seals in this part of the Southern Ocean, and yet you can see tracks all over the snow on the sea ice. It is very easy to tell Adélie tracks from Emperor Penguin tracks because the emperors are at least twice as large and move almost exclusively by sliding on their belly. The size and shape of the belly marks look like someone has pushed a watermelon across the snow with wing marks alternating on each side to help push the giant birds along. On the sea ice, near the icebreaker Oden.

Credit to read: Photo by Jeff Peneston (PolarTREC 2008/2009), Courtesy of ARCUS

Photographer: Jeff Peneston
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Year: 
2008
Program: 
PolarTREC
Region: 
Southern Ocean
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