Sentences with phrase «depend on krill»

What's also shocking is that Antarctic penguin populations, which depend on krill for food, have collapsed by 50 percent in the last 30 years.

In tracking vessel movements, Greenpeace noticed «a pattern of fishing activity increasingly close to shore and in the immediate vicinity of penguin colonies, which depend on krill.»

BEST time to see blue whales in Monterey Bay: May through October, with peaks generally in July and August depending on krill abundance.

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That's because the chinstraps» main food, shrimplike creatures called krill, depend on algae that attaches to that ice.

This had allowed jellyfish - like creatures called salps, which find it easier to feed on the small cells, to start to replace shrimp - like krill, on which whales depend for food.

Depending on the extent of the ice pack, females may need to travel some 50 miles (80 kilometers) just to reach the open ocean, where they will feed on fish, squid, and krill.