My job was to read the numbers on flipper bands. Scientists have banded about 4,000 chicks and 40,000 adult penguins in this area over the past 33 years to find out how long they live and where ...

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A colony of little penguins is under increasing pressure to survive, as adult birds are not returning to feed their starving chicks in the dunes off the Tasmanian seaside town of Bicheno ...

Guests can now pose for photos at the National Geographic photo-op for "Secrets of the Penguins" at Disney Springs in Walt ...

He has also provided opportunities for people to learn more about penguins. Although most people recognize the adult black-and-white birds, king penguins are born covered in brown feathers.

Much of the pilchard – which some scientists regard as particularly important for adult penguin survivorship – became unavailable to penguins as it was now too far away from any of the ...

It is fatal in high doses. To assess mercury’s geographic reach and establish a new baseline for mercury in Antarctic penguins, Reinfelder and Philip Sontag, a postdoctoral researcher in the ...

Lower krill concentrations reduce fish numbers, a dietary mainstay for emperor penguins, affecting adult penguin survival. In looking at historical population records for the Terre Adélie penguin ...

The state attorney also explained that the fence was electrified, which ”caused many adult penguins to die by electrocution.” The perpetrator is to be charged under the animal abuse law ...