Mother Love Mother and chick Gentoo penguins(Pygoscelis papua). This penguin was caring for its two-month old chick on Brown Bluff, a small inlet on the north end of the Antarctica Peninsula. In order to shoot this image at eye-level, the photographer sat low on the ground, covered with snow and penguin guano. Female Gentoo penguins lay eggs in October with chicks hatching after 34 days of incubation.