An observation of a gentoo penguin Pygoscelis papua feeding an Adélie penguin P. adeliae chick

• Published in: Polar Biology
• Main Authors: Genevois, Fabrice, Barbraud, Christophe
• Other Authors: Les Ouguieres, F-15240 Le Monteil, France, Centre d'Études Biologiques de Chizé - UMR 7372 (CEBC), La Rochelle Université (ULR)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2021
• Subjects: Interspecific feeding; Penguin; Antarctic; [SDE]Environmental Sciences; Antarctic Peninsula; The Antarctic; Adelie penguin; Antarc*; Gentoo penguin; Polar Biology; Pygoscelis papua
• Online Access: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03158895; https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-020-02779-z

International audience Interspecific feeding refers to behavior where an adult of one species feeds the young of another species, with the exclusion of brood parasitism. In birds, most of observed cases concern passerines and this behavior has so far never been described among seabirds. We report on interspecific feeding provided by an adult gentoo penguin Pygoscelis papua to an Adelie penguin P. adeliae chick on the Antarctic Peninsula.