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I am not a guy who really knows how to spend more time with parents. I believe that I am a kind of typical example of guys at least for those who are Chinese educated. Therefore, one of the great ways to spend time with them is watching television. I don't really enjoy following the movie series sometime, as I don't know how it's going on in the story most of the time.

This time, the TV showed something interesting. It showed the process of how a penguin grows. I watched the whole process and it is really impressive and interesting.

First of all, they are two mature penguins. The mother laid two eggs for its new generation. They gathered the stones around the eggs so that to separate the eggs from the cold land. Warming the eggs is one of the important process to make sure the baby can properly grow inside the eggshell.

Once the babies inside the eggshells completely grow up, they would break the shell and get free. They are really cute and innocent when they are officially claimed to be alive. It is always a pleasant thing to see a brand-new life get born. Anyway, it is just a beginning for the parents. They need to take turn and get some foods for their children, in order to make sure they have sufficiently fed and properly grown. This is because the children need to get to the next stage (molting) before the days they need to get out of their comfort place to the ocean in order to escape from the coming stormy snow. They need to be fast before the days come, as it only takes about 2 months time for the children to get ready.

It is interesting when I saw what the female penguin did before it gave the foods to its children. The mother ran randomly for the children to chase after it, once they got their mother, they could only get the foods from their mother's mouth. The purpose of this thing is to test whether their children's muscles are growing well. This kind of testing is lovely. It reflects something like what actually the parents should do. You need to test your children maturity level from time to time. You don't only care about supplying the daily need but you make sure that they consume whatever they have gained from you. By the way they run is really funny and amusing. haha!!! On the way they grow up, there are eagles flying around to look for the good chance to hunt the baby penguins. Eagles don't just hunt for fun, they hunt to get food supplied for the children. In the midst of it, the parent penguins endeavor to protect their children from getting hurt. Recalling how my parents protect my brother, when he got hurt seriously. Touched~

According to the information given, the reason for them to molt is that the original furs absorb water, so it blocks the penguins for being capable to swing. Therefore, they need to shed off all the original furs and get a set of brand-new furs which is oily. When the day came, one of the babies was able to molt and got ready itself to leave the place. Another baby was not able to molt on time, it could only wait for death helplessly as the stormy snow came. It can't be helped even by their parents, as their parents needed to leave the place as well. It seems to be too real and like a reflection of human realistic life. If you are not able to grow to a certain stage before it is too late, you will be eliminated eventually. It is not really a cruel thing, but it is a real fact. Impressed to find that animal life is alike as human real life.

After that, the penguin gets into the ocean and move to a new place which is unfamiliar but safe to them. The ocean is not really safe actually, not because of the storms or rains, but there are many stronger animals hunger for delicious preys make it to be fearful. One of them is seal which is not clumsy at all as a predator in that cold ocean. It always looks for the chance when a penguin is moving alone. That always becomes a good chance for it to hunt for its meal. Therefore, the weaker needs to stick together in order to gain faith and power against the strong and powerful enemy. That is why the penguins always stick together when they want to move. If you are prideful to be a loner who ignores people advice and helps, I think the pride would make you pay when the day comes.

On year passed, the young penguins grown to be mature enough to conduct their instinct obligation which is reproduction. The process is so easy and interesting. They more to a place where they used to gather for reproduction. Once they gathered, males and females have chances to meet and confess. A male penguin confessed and showed care to the female penguin. The female penguin accepted it and they get together. I believe the reason for them to get together that efficiently is because they have only one purpose of life for them. They only care about reproduction for their next generation, right? One of the main reasons for humans finding difficult to get together is because the people have their own purposes of life that they insist of nowadays. They can only get together if their purpose of life is in common.

Once they get together, they will do whatever they have to do for reproduction, and then the male penguin plays the role to gather the stone around the female penguin so that the eggs will grow in a better condition.