Sentences with phrase «resulting penguin chick»

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.

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 exact matches

«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.

As a result of the diminished food supply, local penguins have become less successful at raising chicks.

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.

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.