Comments on: Hatching Eggs http://icestories.exploratorium.edu/dispatches/hatching-eggs/ Fri, 29 Oct 2010 21:18:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: David Ainley http://icestories.exploratorium.edu/dispatches/hatching-eggs/comment-page-1/#comment-57 David Ainley Sun, 13 Jan 2008 00:48:41 +0000 http://icestories.exploratorium.edu/dispatches-new/?p=110#comment-57 Hi Julia, Kasie, and Katie– I’m so glad that you’ve been enjoying the dispatches on this site. I encourage you to keep reading and looking through the different posts– you’ll find some great penguin photographs too. An important part of what we do is reaching out to kids like you in classrooms all around the world– so it’s great to know you’ve been enjoying it! If you’d like to do some fun penguin-related activities, you can go to our other website penguinscience.com to track specific nesting penguin pairs and learn about the special ways penguins evolved to adapt to their harsh environment. Just click on: <a href="http://www.penguinscience.com/classroom_home.php" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.penguinscience.com/classroom_home.php</a>. Please don’t forget to come back here for all our dispatches and any other questions or comments you might have. As for your thoughts on skuas, Julia, the penguins would definitely agree with you: they hate skuas too. That’s why they have the adolescent penguins patrol the outside of the nesting areas to drive away skuas by running and making noises at them. But your mom is also right– skuas are just as important to the Antarctic ecosystem as penguins are. They both live in balance with the rest of the ecosystem there, and have for thousands of years. Hi Julia, Kasie, and Katie– I’m so glad that you’ve been enjoying the dispatches on this site. I encourage you to keep reading and looking through the different posts– you’ll find some great penguin photographs too. An important part of what we do is reaching out to kids like you in classrooms all around the world– so it’s great to know you’ve been enjoying it! If you’d like to do some fun penguin-related activities, you can go to our other website penguinscience.com to track specific nesting penguin pairs and learn about the special ways penguins evolved to adapt to their harsh environment. Just click on: http://www.penguinscience.com/classroom_home.php. Please don’t forget to come back here for all our dispatches and any other questions or comments you might have.

As for your thoughts on skuas, Julia, the penguins would definitely agree with you: they hate skuas too. That’s why they have the adolescent penguins patrol the outside of the nesting areas to drive away skuas by running and making noises at them. But your mom is also right– skuas are just as important to the Antarctic ecosystem as penguins are. They both live in balance with the rest of the ecosystem there, and have for thousands of years.

]]> By: Katie Wilhelm http://icestories.exploratorium.edu/dispatches/hatching-eggs/comment-page-1/#comment-56 Katie Wilhelm Fri, 04 Jan 2008 00:48:07 +0000 http://icestories.exploratorium.edu/dispatches-new/?p=110#comment-56 I love your great science work. You are the best guy I know. Keep up the great work. Smiles Katie Wilhelm 1ST Grader I love your great science work. You are the best guy I know. Keep up the great work.

Smiles
Katie Wilhelm 1ST Grader

]]> By: Kasie Brenner http://icestories.exploratorium.edu/dispatches/hatching-eggs/comment-page-1/#comment-55 Kasie Brenner Fri, 04 Jan 2008 00:47:37 +0000 http://icestories.exploratorium.edu/dispatches-new/?p=110#comment-55 hi my name is kasie thank u for shoing me the bababbys. thank u a lot. I am a 1st grade. hi my name is kasie thank u for shoing me the bababbys. thank u a lot. I am a 1st grade.

]]> By: Julia Hirschfield http://icestories.exploratorium.edu/dispatches/hatching-eggs/comment-page-1/#comment-54 Julia Hirschfield Thu, 03 Jan 2008 00:46:57 +0000 http://icestories.exploratorium.edu/dispatches-new/?p=110#comment-54 Hi! My name is Julia and I am 7 years old. I think that writing this story for kids was a genius idea. I loved it! I loved the story about the penguins, and I’m sure other kids would LOVE it too. I learned that penguins hate skuas because they steal and eat unhatched baby penguin eggs! I don’t like skuas either! My mother says skuas are an important part of Antarctica! KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! : ) Hi! My name is Julia and I am 7 years old. I think that writing this story for kids was a genius idea. I loved it! I loved the story about the penguins, and I’m sure other kids would LOVE it too. I learned that penguins hate skuas because they steal and eat unhatched baby penguin eggs! I don’t like skuas either! My mother says skuas are an important part of Antarctica!

KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! : )

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