Of course if you just passed a one pound egg, I don't think anyone would blame you for leaving. The female returns just as the egg is about to hatch. She will regurgitate food into the mouth of the chick. Not Opus Penguin's though, we just zip down to the corner and buy formula. Sadly only a 4th of the young make it.
Females warble a love song to the male.
They breed on islands in the sub-antarctic and on cool coasts of Africa, Austria, New Zealand and South America. Penguins will remain at sea for weeks at a time. During this time they hunt for food and just basically bumm around. Penguins feed on fish squids and crustaceans and Pizza. Assemblages of half grown young are often tended in creches or kindergartens.