12. I'M NEARLY AS BIG AS YOU, DAD

By the age of five months, Snow Chick is now nearly at his full height of 4ft and can eat as much as 5kg of fish in a sitting — brought to him by his doting parents. Yet despite all their hard work, Emperor parents don't escort their offspring to their final destination, the Antarctic Ocean. Instead, Mum and Dad simply waddle off, never to return, with barely a backwards glance