The thriving bird colonies likely grew over several decades because local shepherds had temporarily eliminated pumas ...

Little blue penguin break-up rates are a new tool that could predict their colony’s future in the face of climate change and ...

Starving' penguins - The dwindling numbers are due to a combination of factors including a lack of food, climate change, disturbances, predators, disease, oil spills and more. But the biggest ...

Rather than measuring the chemical itself in a snapshot of time and place, he says, measuring penguin feathers’ mercury levels tracks the substance’s movement through the oceanic food web.

They might look a bit clumsy on land, but penguins are brilliant swimmers. They can dive down to 180m – though they tend to catch their food (mainly krill and fish) much closer to the surface.

“So many of the penguins are starving and are not getting enough food to breed successfully,” she said. When penguins do not eat enough, preferably sardines or anchovies, they tend to abandon ...

There is evidence that human activity is affecting climate change and in turn having an impact on the penguins food source. Competition with humans and an oil spill in 2000 have also had a ...