- A bizarre images appears to show a penguin walking around without a head
- Australian photographer Robert Ian Fraser snapped the picture on the South Georgia Islands near Antarctica
- The manoeuvre enables penguins to reach deep into their feathers with their beak
A bizarre bird caused quite a stir in his colony when he was spotted walking around having apparently lost his head.
Australian
photographer Robert Ian Fraser, 53, noticed the peculiar sight while
exploring the South Georgia Islands, as part of a three week cruise
around the
Falklands and Antarctica.
Falklands and Antarctica.
Seeing a headless penguin initially left Mr Fraser stumped - but he later came to realise that the sight was more common than he had imagined.
He said: 'Being around 500,000 penguins, the sight of an apparently headless bird was more common than you might think.'
Thanks
to a clever optical illusion and the help of a double-jointed neck, the
headless bird was able to pull off this unusual trick.
But such a manoeuvre is not just a display of the king penguins flexibility - it enables the flightless bird to reach deep into its feathers when they feel an itch or need to groom.
With
over two million king penguin scattered across the world the unsettling
sight has made several appearances in areas of Crozet Island, Prince
Edwards Islands, the Kerguelen Islands and other parts of the South
Georgia archipelago.
Bizarre bird: In the South Georgia
Islands penguins appear to be walking around without heads. The optical
illusion left Victorian photographer Robert Ian Fraser stumped by the
unusual sight while he was
It's all in your head! The flightless
bird caused a stir among the colony although Mr Fraser said the sight
was more common than you might think among penguins
With over two million king penguin scattered across the world the unsettling sight has made several appearances in areas of Crozet Island, Prince Edwards Islands, the Kerguelen Islands and other parts of the South Georgia archipelago
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