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Previously Unknown "Supercolony" of Adelie Penguins Discovered in Antarctica
For the past 40 years, the total number of Adélie Penguins, one of the most common on the Antarctic Peninsula, has been steadily declining—or so biologists have thought. A new study led by researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), however, is providing new insights on this species of penguin.
In a paper released on March 2nd in the journal Scientific Reports, the scientists announced the discovery of a previously unknown "supercolony" of more than 1,500,000 Adélie Penguins in the Danger Islands, a chain of remote, rocky islands off of the Antarctic Peninsula's northern tip.
Also at BBC and Smithsonian.
Multi-modal survey of Adélie penguin mega-colonies reveals the Danger Islands as a seabird hotspot (open, DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-22313-w) (DX)
(Score: 5, Funny) by stretch611 on Sunday March 04 2018, @01:51AM (5 children)
They were forced out of their old habitats because of perverted scientists.
They were watching them while they ate and exercised, even when they were mating... never stopping a minute for modesty. And damn, you couldn't even get rid of their creepy gaze when your kids where being born.
To make matters worse, these perverts constantly took pictures. Hell, the night is 6 months long down here, but you would never know it with all the flashes going off constantly.
Is it no wonder the penguins left from the constant surveillance of the perverted stalkers to try and find a little privacy? And now they went and ruined it... time to find a new place.
Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P
(Score: 2) by takyon on Sunday March 04 2018, @02:29AM
Meanwhile, the homo sapiens creatures tolerate CCTVs and ALPRs just fine.
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(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Sunday March 04 2018, @02:41AM (3 children)
It sounds like reality TV, right? Where these penguins got voted off the island -- on The Apprentice, Celebrity Apprentice we called it fired -- only maybe they got voted ONTO the island. I say maybe, nobody knows when they moved there -- you try to ask the penguins, they can't tell you. I fired @Omarosa [twitter.com] 4 times, then I brought her to the White House. And that didn't work out so great, I had to let her go. But she's doing very well, she's on Celebrity Big Brother now. Because of me. She's one of my people, she brings a little bit of me to the show. Which, I'm sure, is tremendous for their ratings. Every week, folks tuning in. To see who's exercising, who's eating, who's mating. Who's getting evicted -- what they call getting voted off the island. But mostly to hear the stories about me. I think George Orwell would be very proud. Very proud. And maybe we'll do some more productions together, me and Omarosa. I wish her continued success! #TrumpTV [twitter.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 04 2018, @07:52AM (1 child)
An answer to that millenia-old question [wikia.com] (not millenial, it's not all about you, no matter what you think), "What fate Omarosa [nocookie.net]?"
(Score: 2) by takyon on Sunday March 04 2018, @08:27AM
I hope you're not the one who made that connection cuz damn.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 04 2018, @04:59PM
You're just jealous because they all have peckers longer than yours.