Sentences with phrase «penguin chicks»

University of Delaware oceanographers recently reported a connection between local weather conditions and the weight of Adélie penguin chicks in an article in Marine Ecology Progress Series, a top marine ecology journal.

Choose from species like polar bears, three - toed sloths, pandas, emperor penguin chicks, monarch butterflies and more.

One year later, several cases were observed across the Atlantic Ocean, in wild Magellanic penguin chicks along the coast of Argentina.

176 Number of African penguin chicks at a rehabilitation center in South Africa with a puzzling disorder that caused them to lose all their feathers, according to a study published last year.

I was intrigued to learn that the body temperature of king penguin chicks falls when they are fed cold meals...

- Young penguin chicks are starting to get strong and big and can be seen huddling in «penguin creches».

Summer is in full swing with penguin chicks hatching all fluffy and grey, you'll see them earlier in the South Shetland Islands and later in the month to the south of the Peninsula.

Students read a book called And Tango Makes Three about two male penguins who find an abandoned egg and eventually coparent the resulting penguin chick, which promoted discussion in her classroom about all types of families.

UD researchers have reported a connection between local weather conditions and the weight of Adélie penguin chicks.

In particular, local weather — including high winds, cold temperatures and precipitation, such as rain or humidity — had the largest impact on penguin chick weight variations over time.

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.

It took 10 months, but the Shedd Aquarium's newest rockhopper penguin chick finally has a name.

Each year, hundreds of endangered South African penguin chicks find themselves abandoned by their parents.

The runner - up was a close - up of an albatross feeding her chick, and other images ranging from huddled penguin chicks to a visualization of simulations of predator - prey interactions and the evolution of camouflage earned recognition as the best photos on various subfields, such as behavioral and physiological ecology, landscape ecology, and ecosystems and theoretical ecology and models.

An eruption can bury penguin chicks in abrasive and toxic ash, and whilst the adults can swim away, the chicks may be too young to survive in the freezing waters.

Too big for parents to sit over protectively, but still too young to have grown waterproof feathers, downy penguin chicks exposed to drenching rain can struggle and die of hypothermia in spite of the best efforts of their concerned parents.

The so - called feather - loss disorder was first seen in 2006 in penguin chicks housed at a captive facility in South Africa.

In the study, Megan Cimino, a UD doctoral student in the College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment and the paper's lead author, compared data from 1987 to 2011 related to the penguin's diet, the weather and the large - scale climate indices to see if they could correlate year - to - year penguin chick weight with a particular factor.

This leaves penguin chicks unprotected and exposed while adult penguins are away from the nest.

And in the Antarctic, wet baby penguin chicks shiver in the rain; warming temperatures mean less snow but more rain, which soaks them through, putting them at risk of freezing to death.

About 65 % of 52 emperor penguin chicks were infected.

More rain related to a warming climate soaks Magellanic penguin chicks to the skin before their waterproof feathers grow in, killing them from hypothermia.

Coming in at up to 10 kilograms, the king penguin chicks are enormous by comparison.

At the end of 2010, SANCCOB was confronted with a record number of penguin chicks — 483 — that were abandoned and in need of intense therapy so Georgia Aquarium responded by sending veterinary staff to provide emergency assistance.

If the opposite happened and there was too much sea ice, then foraging trips took longer and penguin chicks were less likely to survive.

When a human or undisguised rover approaches the animals, they tend to react in alarm, but when the camouflaged rover came near, emperor penguin chicks and adults both began vocalizing at it as though it were one of their own.

In a series of tests with a rover, the team found that remote identification of tagged animals without causing any negative impact was possible if they dressed a small rover up like a penguin chick.

SeaWorld has become a favorite summer vacation spot for celebs in recent weeks: True Blood's Stephen Moyer and Anna Paquin dropped in at the San Diego outpost to visit with several of the animals — posing with a bottlenose dolphin, snuggling a Magellanic penguin chick, and holding a macaroni penguin — while Outkast rapper Big Boi made friends with a penguin at SeaWorld Orlando.