As the fervor of Fat Bear Week rages on, a different corner of the animal kingdom is in trouble: The Antarctic penguin community. Australian researchers studying Adélie penguins point to a plunging ...
Many animals engage in elaborate mating rituals. For flight-ready birds, these often involve complex dance moves and peacock-like displays of grandeur. For their land-bound cousins, like the Adélie ...
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Scientists Uncover a 6,000-Year-Old Climate Time Capsule Hidden in Adélie penguins “Poop”
For 6,000 years, Adélie penguins have unknowingly documented the changing climate of Antarctica—not in journals or fossils, ...
Scientists are investigating how Adélie penguin colonies along the coast of Antarctica’s Ross Sea have adapted over the last 6,000 years. Jamie Wood Penguin poop is stinky but useful. In Antarctica, ...
It was only a matter of time before human-caused climate change and pollution reached even the most isolated continent on the planet. As global temperature rises, Antarctica's pristine landscape is ...
There is no shortage of penguin poop in Antarctica. In fact, you can see it from space, if you know where to look. Researchers often use satellite observations to study Adélie penguin populations and ...
Adélie penguins seem to have passed a portion of the mirror test, in which animals that see their reflection in a mirror appear to recognise that they are seeing themselves and not another individual.
Comfort movements include the behaviours of shaking, stretching, cleaning, preening, and washing. These were described and analyzed for Adélie Penguins. The function for some movements such as ...
It’s heartbreaking to realize that creatures we’ve grown up admiring are fighting for survival due to rising global temperatures. Global warming isn’t just a distant threat; it’s a present danger, ...
Hidden for nearly 100 years for being too "graphic," a report of "hooligan" behaviors, including sexual coercion, by Adelie penguins observed during Captain Scott's 1910 polar expedition has been ...
Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...
A beach in Christchurch, New Zealand, had an unexpected visitor this week — a penguin that had traveled roughly 2,000 miles from its native Antarctica. The bird is known as an Adélie penguin and is ...
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