Now, the problem we have with a social species like a penguin, is that generally speaking, they don’t breed as single pairs as a tiger would. They can on occasion, but mostly that is not successful because they have evolved over hundreds of thousands of years systems that are mutually dependent on being together in large colonies. On the coast of Patagonia, there are roughly 13 penguin colonies. It is almost as though you add 13 pairs of penguins if they were not colonial species. Each colony can be destroyed in the way a single pair of eagles might be. And 13 nesting eagles along the coast of Patagonia have a much greater chance of being a viable population than 13 pairs of penguins could ever have because the one is a social or colonial breeder and the other is not. Colonial breeders are things like terns, gulls, cormorant, penguins, and many other species, a good many mammals too. I’d to just go back a bit and talk about yourself some of your background.
