Sentences with phrase «penguin chicks find»

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The chick is named in honor of Ruggles Bay in the Falkland Islands, one of the places where rockhopper penguins can be found.

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.

Using a laboratory technique called real - time reverse transcription - PCR to examine the virus's genetic blueprint, they found avian influenza virus (AIV) genetic material in eight samples - six adult penguins and two chicks.

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.

So penguin parents must swim ever further to find food for their chicks.

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.