Posted on 03/02/2018 8:34:15 PM PST by blueplum
A thriving "hotspot" of 1.5 million Adelie penguins, a species fast declining in parts of the world, has been discovered on remote islands off the Antarctic Peninsula, surprised scientists said Friday.
The first bird census of the Danger Islands unearthed over 750,000 Adelie breeding pairs, more than the rest of the area combined, the team reported in the journal Scientific Reports. {snip}
When the Landsat data originally suggested the presence of hundreds of thousands of penguins on the islands, she thought it "was a mistake".
"We were surprised to find so many penguins on these islands, especially because some of these islands were not known to have penguins."
Then followed a field expedition for a census using a combination of drone footage, pictures taken on the ground, and an old fashioned walk-about headcount.
"We were... very lucky to have a window of time where the sea ice moved out and we could get a yacht in," said Lynch.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
but, not to worry, less than 100 miles away - over a million Adelie penguins!
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It’s impossible. Global warming is killing all the penguins.
No worries. The NRA will go down there and wipe them out s/
Great news for Pittsburgh!
Do they taste like chicken or fish?
“Dooo bee doo bee dooo!”
They lie to us about everything!
I’m quoting your thread so this is a courtesy penguin ping!
Penguins are smart. They are not trying to import immagrunts, so no other population to assimilate.
I never did see that movie “Happy Feet” in the theater, though I sensed that it was a very entertaining film.
Happy Feet. So the premise is the poor penguins will starve because mankind is killing all the fish.
So at the end of the movie, the fish return, so that the penguins can eat them.
So why didn’t anybody cry over all those poor fish being eaten by the penguins?
They lie to us about everything!
That’s a lot of penguins.
And who cries for the krill?
So there was AlGore type preaching going on even with this film?! Oh well. Nowadays, they would have to include at least one dopey Ostrich who ‘identified as’ a penguin.
Indeed. But these islands are not so much remote as obscure, however remote they may be.
Google Maps reveals them, but they are small and few in number. I guess the Penguins hit the jackpot here.
Nobody tell all those starving Polar Bears!
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