Credit: Andrew Evans

A rare photo of a fully black (melanistic) penguin showed up on National Geographic Traveler's Intelligent Travel blog last week. Janelle Nanoson, who initially shared the image on the blog, called Dr. Allan Baker (ornithologist and professor of Environmental and Evolutionary Studies at the University of Toronto and head of the Department of Natural History at the Royal Ontario Museum) to inquire about the intriguing photo, and even he was surprised by how rare this is! The photo was taken by Andrew Evans while visiting South Georgia Island in the Southern Atlantic Ocean.

You can read more about this interesting photo and Dr. Baker's thoughts on their blog:
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Apparently after they posted they received an email from Ted Cheeseman of Cheesemans' Ecology Safaris out of California who reported seeing a similar penguin during an excursion in 2006. He shared this in a follow-up post on the same blog:
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