The sight of a seemingly endless gaggles of\u00a0penguins\u00a0is only one of the mind-boggling elements of an Antarctic voyage. Another is the ear-splitting cacophony of said colony.<\/p>\n
Although not all of us will be lucky enough to hear this din for ourselves, a recent video taken by adventurer Chris Long<\/a> brought it to life perfectly.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s quite a chorus!\u201d, says\u00a0Oceanwide Expeditions<\/a>\u00a0while sharing the footage on\u00a0Instagram<\/a>. \u201cThese king penguins<\/a> at Right Whale Bay, South Georgia, gave our guests a raucous greeting beneath drizzly, sub-Antarctic skies.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n In the video, the camera pans around as countless\u00a0king penguins<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 both adults and juveniles \u2013 stand side-by-side against the grey sky.\u00a0<\/p>\n The scene might look calm but that all changes as soon as you turn the sound on and the air is filled with the calls of penguins<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n Listen to the incredible sound of a king penguin colony in South Georgia, an island in the South Atlantic Ocean. Credit: Chris Long<\/p>\n Calling out to each other helps penguin pairs locate their partner in a busy colony like this one. According to a paper published in\u00a0The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America<\/a>, the calls of individual king penguins have their own distinctive features.<\/p>\n \u201cBirds returning from foraging at sea find their mate in the crowded colony using acoustic signals,\u201d write the authors in the paper. \u201cIn this study it was found that the king penguin vocalises in response to the mate\u2019s playback calls, but not to those of neighbours.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Image and video credit: Chris Long, @wildkiwiadventurer<\/a><\/p>\n More amazing wildlife stories from around the world<\/p>\n