News tagged with antarctic penguins
Campaigners push for vast Antarctic marine reserve
Conservationists called Tuesday for the world's biggest marine protection zone to be declared around Antarctica, heralding the possibility of a global fight over its pristine waters.
Nov 01, 2011 |
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Happy Feet the penguin missing in Southern Ocean
Scientists tracking Happy Feet, the wayward penguin who became a worldwide celebrity after washing up on a New Zealand beach, said Monday they had lost contact with the giant bird.
Sep 12, 2011 |
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N.Z.'s lost penguin to hitch home on research ship
A wayward Emperor penguin that washed up in New Zealand will be shipped back to sub-antarctic waters later this month on a scientific research vessel, Wellington Zoo said Wednesday.
Aug 17, 2011 |
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Lost penguin more lively, eating fish post-surgery
(AP) -- New Zealand's favorite penguin visitor is more lively and eating fish after undergoing endoscopic surgery Monday to remove some of the beach sand and twigs it swallowed, apparently mistaking it for ...
Jun 27, 2011 |
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Keeping warm: Coordinated movements in a penguin huddle
To survive temperatures below -50 C and gale-force winds above 180 km/h during the Antarctic winter, Emperor penguins form tightly packed huddles and, as has recently been discovered – the penguins actually ...
Jun 01, 2011 |
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NOAA tracks winter journeys of seals and penguins in Antarctica
Scientists from NOAA's Southwest Fisheries Science Center placed 61 satellite tags on fur seals, leopard seals, Weddell seals, chinstrap penguins and gentoo penguins that will allow researchers and the public to track the ...
May 11, 2010 |
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'Invisible hand' guides evolution of cooperative turn-taking, research shows
It's not just good manners to wait your turn -- it's actually down to evolution, according to new research by University of Leicester psychologists.
Jul 09, 2009 |
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Phytoplankton is changing along the Antarctic Peninsula
As the cold, dry climate of the western Antarctic Peninsula becomes warmer and more humid, phytoplankton - the bottom of the Antarctic food chain - is decreasing off the northern part the peninsula and increasing further ...
Mar 12, 2009 |
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