taciturn man, who, in his solitude, was not much into conversation with humans anymore. But Dr. Ainley gave his best effort. Well, here we are at Cape Royds. This is 2006, and it's just about the 100th anniversary of the first penguin study that was ever done, which was done here at Cape Royds by a person that was part of the Shackleton expedition. They all had a good winter, and they're very fat. They've claimed their territories and eggs have been laid and females have left, and now there's just males that are sitting on eggs, using their fat reserves and waiting for females to return to relieve them and then go to sea. I tried to keep the conversation going. Dr. Ainley, I read somewhere that there are gay penguins. What are your observations? I've never... Or strange sexual behavior. Can you talk about... Yeah, there has been... I've seen triangular relationships where there's one female and two males, and the female lays the egg, or eggs, and the males and the female trade off over the season. There are mis-identities, initially, of the sex of penguins. Somebody recently described what they call prostitution where a female, who is out collecting rocks for her nest, and, of course, some penguins are... The only way they collect rocks is to steal them from others. So, in order to do that, they have to be very submissive in order to get close to a male, who's maybe advertising for a