FEATHRUARY 2025
Prompt 14: Hop
-> Rockhopper Penguin
Rockhopper penguins are three kinds of crested penguins who live near rocky shores and breed in tall tussock grass. They are generally on the smaller side with a body length of up to 50cm (half a blahaj). Males and females look the same, so a DNA test would be needed to determine a rockhopper penguin's sex.
Even though they look somewhat similar because of their magnificent yellow crest, rockhopper penguins are not to be confused with macaroni penguins.
Rockhopper penguins feed on every small thing they find in the ocean. They are really good divers and can dive up to 100m (330ft) for several minutes while hunting.
Unfortunately, their numbers have declined drastically over the last decades, the reason being, you guessed it, humans. Commercial overfishing, oil spillings, polution and climate change all contribute to the depletion of the rockhopper penguin's food supply and thus to the decrease of their numbers.
FUN FACT
There are three subspecies of the rockhopper penguin: the Southern, Eastern, and Northern rockhopper penguin. The funny thing is though, experts are still fighting over how to categorize them. Some consider all three of them to be distinct species, some consider only the Northern rockhopper penguin as a distinct species and others think they are all just the same species. No consensus has been reached thus far.
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