Sentences with phrase «penguin chicks in»

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.

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.

Not exact matches

After a successful breeding season — during which we welcomed a new rockhopper chick into our care — both the rockhopper and Magellanic penguins are in various stages of their annual molt, a process that will span several weeks.

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

«We're privileged to work with threatened penguins every day at Shedd, and as a result, we've become experts in their biology and nature, which allows us to appropriately assess and deliver skilled care to each individual chick,» said Kurt Heizmann, Assistant Supervisor of Marine Mammals at Shedd Aquarium and Animal Response Team member on - site in South Africa.

Boersma and Rebstock looked at the cause of every recorded chick mortality in an Argentinian colony of Magellanic penguins, over a nearly 30 - year period, and compared these with changes in temperature and precipitation over the same time.

But as we move [d] down the coast and we also start [ed] to go under these islands which were filled with young penguin chicks — penguins are all kind of born in November, they leave the nest in the first week of February or so and when we were seeing them in January, they were still covered by down and this was during that kind of torrential rain period that we saw, and as a result these penguin chicks which were [a] couple months old covered in down are getting soaked by cold rain during the day and then at night time the temperature drops down into the teens and they are freezing and dying.

NOT long ago, the news was full of reports about two male Humboldt penguins at a zoo in Germany that adopted an egg, hatched it and reared the chick together.

King penguins are in fact picky animals: in order to form a colony where they can mate, lay eggs and rear chicks over a year, they need tolerable temperature all year round, no winter sea ice around the island, and smooth beach of sand or pebbles.

The results show that these penguins» rigid division of parental roles is not suited to ensure that their chicks grow and survive as well as possible, especially in times of poor food supply.

An adult Magellanic penguin meets its chick at the mouth of their burrow in South America.

In January, they spotted two chicks (one of which is pictured above) in the Hope Bay Adélie penguin colony that were missing large patches of featherIn January, they spotted two chicks (one of which is pictured above) in the Hope Bay Adélie penguin colony that were missing large patches of featherin the Hope Bay Adélie penguin colony that were missing large patches of feathers.

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

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

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.

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.

A mother Magellanic penguin pants doglike in the afternoon heat, shading her newborn chick from the hot sun.

George Miller's strange - but - charming Happy Feet theorizes that if a papa penguin drops the egg, it won't kill the chick inside, as was so fervently, memorably anfd heartwrenchingly noted in March of the Penguins... it'll just rattle his innards, turning him into a mildly eccentric potential social outcast who can't sing like the rest of his breed, but can shake his tail feathers like Fred, Ginger AND Bojangles!

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.

And Tango Makes Three, the story of male penguins raising an orphaned chick that topped the US banned books list, experiences a huge surge in sales

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.

You will never forget your first experience of a noisy «penguin city», where the dapper inhabitants show no fear of their strange visitors and where you will be immersed in a tumult of chattering, feeding chicks; territorial disputes; petty pilfering and courtship displays.

Climate change has already begun to affect penguin species much further north, in Argentina, by taking toll of young chicks.

However, it was not until the 1997 discovery of antibodies to Infectious Bursal Disease Virus (IBDV) in a high percentage of emperor penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri) chicks at Auster Rookery (through research led by Australian Antarctic Division veterinary biologist, Heather Gardner), that disease in Antarctic wildlife was connected with the presence of people in Antarctica.

Each year, the researchers visited penguin nests once or twice a day from mid-September through late February to assess the overall status of the colony and the health of the chicks once they hatched in late November or early December.

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.