Sentences with phrase «find penguin colonies»

If the walls of perfectly preserved fossils aren't enough to excite your kids, they'll find penguin colonies, rare birds and stunning blue marine habitats full of dive worthy fish and features.

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PERSONAL SPACE Positions of king penguins in a breeding colony resemble molecules in a 2 - D liquid, a new study finds.

Climate change is killing penguin chicks from the world's largest colony of Magellanic penguins, not just indirectly — by depriving them of food, as has been repeatedly documented for these and other seabirds — but directly as a result of drenching rainstorms and, at other times, heat, according to new findings from the University of Washington.

Both findings suggest that the penguins are less stable with all the added weight — teetering more dramatically, like a person carrying a heavy box — and may explain past observations that heavier birds are more likely to take a tumble on their trek to the breeding colony, the team reports today in PLOS ONE.

We found four new colonies and confirmed the location of three previously suspected sites giving a total number of emperor penguin breeding colonies of 46.

Here you will find rare sea lions, penguins, fur seals and the world's only mainland albatross colony — the perfect date for an animal lover!

After he is split from the group, Mumble encounters another group of penguins, who like his dancing enough to befriend him, and they help him try to find a way to gain acceptance in his own colony.

When global warming causes the colony of penguins to become trapped by mountains of ice, Mumble must find a way to rescue them before they starve to death.

We motor to the rocky islets known as «Las Marielas», where a colony of nesting Penguins, Flightless Cormorants and giant Marine Iguanas are found.

- Penguin colonies are a hive of activity, with parents finding as much food as possible for their young, fending off giant Skua birds that prey on baby penguins.

According to the BBC, biologists used these aerial surveys to make a more accurate guess as to the number of penguins present in each colony, all without having to brave the region's freezing temperatures, and what they found was quite remarkable.