Having a baby isn't so bad. If you're a female Emperor penguin
in the Antarctic. She lays the egg, rolls it over to the father,
then takes off for warmer weather where she eats and eats and
eats. For two months, the father stands stiff, without food,
blind in the 24-hour dark, balancing the egg on his feet. After
the little penguin is hatched, the mother sees fit to come home.
-- L.M. Boyd, "Austin American-Statesman"