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The southernmost Miocene penguin (Aves, Spheniscidae) from South America

open access: yesNeues Jahrbuch Fur Geologie Und Palaontologie - Abhandlungen, 2012
Fil: Acosta Hospitaleche, Carolina Ileana Alicia. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo.
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First penguin fossil (Aves, Spheniscidae) from Uruguay

Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 2019
Abstract A fossil humerus coming from the Rocha Department coasts (Uruguay) is assigned here to Spheniscus cf. S. magellanicus (Aves, Sphenisciformes). This finding, located within the current migratory route of the species, potentially constitutes the northernmost fossil record of S.
Acosta Hospitaleche, Carolina Ileana Alicia   +4 more
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2022
Penguins is an isolated group of specifically organized birds inhabiting the soutl hemisphere from tropical latitudes to the Antarctica. They live an aguatic life as a result of which the structure of their body changed and the ability to fly disappeared. They feed on fish, crustaceans, cephalopods. 17 species of penguins are known.
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Crossvallia unienwillia, a new Spheniscidae (Sphenisciformes, Aves) from the Late Paleocene of Antarctica

Geobios, 2005
Abstract Modern penguins are typically small to medium-sized birds, and nearly all known modern specimens are smaller than the most archaic Paleogene relatives. Here we report an incomplete humerus, associated femur and tibiatarsus of a new spheniscid, Crossvallia unienwillia nov. gen.
Claudia P. Tambussi   +3 more
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Notes on Parasites in Penguins (Spheniscidae) and Petrels (Procellariidae) in the Antarctic and Sub-antarctic

Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 1988
Blood smears were examined from 143 penguins of four species (Aptenodytes patagonicus, Eudyptes chrysolophus, E. schlegeli, and Pygoscelis gentoo) from Sub-antarctic Macquarie Island and Heard Island. No blood parasites were reported. The vectors of Hepatozoon albatrossi (reported from three species of albatross) are probably shared by penguins, and it
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The Energetics of Free-Living Little Penguins Eudyptula-Minor (Spheniscidae), During Molt

Australian Journal of Zoology, 1988
Levels of circulating triglycerides and cholesterol in moulting little penguins in Tasmania were measured before, and throughout the moult. Levels at the initiation of moult were similar to those in breeding birds but increased by 2.5 times (triglycerides) and 1.8 times (cholesterol) during the moult.
R Gales, B Green, C Stahel
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Liver and plasma retinol (vitamin A) in wild, and liver retinol in captive penguins (Spheniscidae)

Journal of Zoology, 1989
In rockhopper penguins (Eudyptes crestatus), liver concentrations of retinol (vitamin A) were significantly higher in post‐moult than in pre‐moult birds. In Magellanic penguins (Spheniscus magelianicus), plasma concentrations of retinol were significantly higher in post‐moult than in pre‐moult birds; liver retinol concentrations were also higher, but ...
K. Ghebrmeskel   +3 more
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The Penguins: Spheniscidae

Colonial Waterbirds, 1996
Ian L. Jones, Tony D. Williams
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