Issue 2025.04

I’ve Lost
My Mind!

King Penguin Chicks Keeping Warm

Words and Image by Brian Matthews

On a windswept beach on Saunders Island in the Falklands, I lay flat in the sand, trying to frame a scene of king penguins. Among the elegant adults, one chick caught my eye, a round, fuzzy brown ball with no visible head.

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