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The parents share the chores---guarding the eggs, protecting the young, and bringing home food for the the baby chicks. The adult goes to sea to eat anchovies, squid and krill and then he or she returns to the burrow to regurgitate the food to feed the babies. The babies grow quickly. The babies are covered with a thick layer of soft brown down resembling fur. Eventually, their down is replaced with their first feathers allowing them to head for the high seas in January or February, ahead of their parents. The babies return to the Seno Otway penguin colony when they are a year old to molt and grow their adult feathers. They don't nest until they are three years old.
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