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A video showing a bloody fight between penguins over a female shocked many Internet users.
A video published by National Geographic shows how the penguin “husband” returned home to his “wife”, finding her with another penguin.
The enraged “husband” started a fight with an opponent, which ended in bloody consequences.
Penguins are considered by many to be quite friendly animals, however, they can be quite ferocious when provoked.
Unlike most birds, whose wings have hollow bones, penguin bones are solid. This allows them to use their wings as ruthless weapons that they can hit up to 8 times per second.
The penguin's beak, which he usually uses to bury himself in the ground, can also be a pretty aggressive method of attack. For example, in the video, penguins used it to gouge out their eyes.
The skirmish between the penguins began rapidly, and both males could be seen hitting each other violently several times.
The “husband” tried to drive away the intruder, but the opponent did not give up.
The fight soon came to a standstill, and the partner asked the female to choose between them.
When the female chose a rival, the “husband” continued to attack her face and eyes using her beak, which ended in bloodshed for both birds.
Nevertheless, the female supported the new companion, again refusing the rejected “husband”.
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Interesting facts about penguins
Although most penguins are monogamous, they spend most of their time apart.
There are about 17-20 species of penguins, and they all live exclusively in the southern hemisphere.
Some prehistoric penguins reached enormous sizes, being as tall and heavy as humans.
The oldest penguin fossils lived during the Paleocene era in New Zealand about 62 million years ago.
Penguins can jump up to 1.8 meters out of the water.
1 in 50,000 penguins are born with brown rather than black feathers.
Penguins have an organ near their eyes that filters salt from the water.
The emperor penguin can dive to a depth of more than 500 meters and stay underwater for up to 27 minutes.
Emperor penguins have different roles in the family: males hatch eggs and females forage for food.
Magellanic penguins always return to their partner after a solo journey of more than 320,000 km.
Scientists can discover penguin colonies from space by seeing dark patches of ice left over from penguin excrement.
In 2008, a penguin was knighted in Norway.
There are no penguins in the Arctic.
When a female penguin loses her baby, she sometimes tries to steal another mother's baby.
The northernmost place where penguins live is the Galapagos Islands.
Penguins can control circulation to their limbs by reducing the amount of blood that cools and preventing their limbs from freezing.
Most penguins swim at a speed of 6 to 11 km per hour.
Seals love to mate with penguins.
Penguins spend almost half of their lives on land and the other half in the ocean.
Penguins don't have teeth. Instead, their mouths are lined with fleshy protrusions.
Once a year, penguins replace their old feathers with new ones.
The largest species of penguin are emperor penguins. They reach about 1.1 meters in height and weigh 35 kg.
Penguins don't taste sweet and spicy, only sour and salty.