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What's the story of the first yellow penguin in the world recorded on camera?
Although various animals with pigment deficiencies have been documented in the past, this is the first time anyone has been able to photograph an albino penguin.
Wildlife photographer Yves Adams caught a yellow royal penguin on a trip to South Georgia just before the outbreak of the Corona plague - and now he shares the rare photos
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Wednesday, February 24, 2021, 11:48 p.m.
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Just before the outbreak of the Corona plague, wildlife photographer Yves Adams embarked on a two-month journey in Antarctica and the South Atlantic to document a colony of some 120,000 royal penguins.
When his crew and he stopped in the South Georgia Islands they spotted a yellow royal penguin - which had apparently never been observed or documented before.
Adams, the 43-year-old Belgian photographer who headed the expedition, believes the rare royal penguin caught on camera in the Salisbury plain is lucid, meaning he suffers from a partial loss of pigmentation.
He told The Independent: "Its cells do not produce melanin and that is what affected its pigmentation and turned its black feathers into a ceramic yellow."
Adams visited the island in 2019 but it took him more than a year to publish the photos of the world’s first yellow royal penguin.
He claims that since he went on a particularly long journey, he documented thousands of photos so it took him a long time to go through them all.
He explained: "I took thousands of pictures at that time, especially since at this time of year it is not dark in Antarctica. I was there for 8 weeks. Just going through all the pictures took me an eternity."
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Adams recounted the moment he spotted the penguin with the bright yellow feathers: "Suddenly when I caught it, I lost it. I dropped all the safety gear, grabbed the camera and started taking pictures non-stop. I was lucky he landed next to us. If he was 50 meters away "I could not catch a picture of him."
He added: "Our landscape was not blocked by other animals either. It is usually almost impossible to move on this beach because of the congestion there. All the penguins looked completely normal except for this one. It was a unique and memorable experience."
Adams also told what motivated him to embark on this journey.
He said: "I've been dreaming of traveling to South Georgia for 30 years, even when I saw my first documentary, directed by naturalist David Attenborough. There I saw these penguins and really wanted to see them in real life. It was definitely worth it - and not. Just because of the yellow penguin, but yes, that was the icing on the cake. "
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