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Up for grabs: prey herding by penguins facilitates shallow foraging by volant seabirds [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2019 Visual and olfactory signals are commonly used by seabirds to locate prey in the horizontal domain, but foraging success depends on prey depth and the seabird's ability to access it.
A. M. McInnes, P. A. Pistorius
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Feathers as a Tool to Assess Mercury Contamination in Gentoo Penguins: Variations at the Individual Level. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Feathers have been widely used to assess mercury contamination in birds as they reflect metal concentrations accumulated between successive moult periods: they are also easy to sample and have minimum impact on the study birds.
Sara Pedro +8 more
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Seabirds in Conditions of Local Chronic Oil Pollution, Davis Sea, Antarctica
Birds, 2021 Oil spills are rare in Antarctica. They threaten flying birds and penguins. This is the first report on the interactions of seabirds with oil in the area of the Mirny Station (East Antarctica). The purpose of the study is to determine the total number of
Sergey Golubev
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Diversity, 2022 Despite its current low diversity, the penguin clade (Sphenisciformes) is one of the groups of birds with the most complete fossil record. Likewise, from the evolutionary point of view, it is an interesting group given the adaptations developed for ...
Jonathan S. Pelegrín +1 more
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Scientific Reports, 2022 The population of the Endangered African penguin Spheniscus demersus has decreased by > 65% in the last 20 years. A major driver of this decrease has been the reduced availability of their principal prey, sardine Sardinops sagax and anchovy Engraulis ...
Tegan Carpenter-Kling +9 more
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Global Ecology and Conservation, 2016 Ten Humboldt (Spheniscus humboldti) and eight Magellanic Penguins (S. magellanicus) were successfully equipped with satellite transmitters in March 2009 on Islotes Puñihuil in central south-Chile to follow their post-moult dispersal.
Klemens Pütz +5 more
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Effects of Diesel, Heavy Metals and Plastics Pollution on Penguins in Antarctica: A Review
Animals, 2021 Antarctica is a relatively pristine continent that attracts scientists and tourists alike. However, the risk of environmental pollution in Antarctica is increasing with the increase in the number of visitors.
Nurul Aini Puasa +8 more
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Polar Research, 2016 The koilin membrane, formed by the secretions of the ventricular and pyloric glands, functions as a protective layer in the gizzards of most bird species.
Han-Kyu Kim +4 more
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La producción de aceite de pingüino en Patagonia y Malvinas (1850-1880)
Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos, 2022 Penguins were one of the many marine animals that became a commercial object by being connected to the great market and consumption of oils and skins of the 19th century.
Sofia Clara Haller, Susana V. García
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Pesquisa Veterinária Brasileira, 2014 Magellanic penguins (Spheniscus magellanicus) routinely migrate from their breeding colonies to Southern Brazil often contracting diseases during this migration, notably avian malaria, which has been already reported in Brazil and throughout the world ...
Sabrina D.E. Campos +7 more
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