In A Colony of Nearly 40,000 Breeding Penguins, Only Two Chicks Survived This Year

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  1. sawyer

    sawyer Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    And why did this happen? The answer is too much ice in the Antarctic. You know, the same Antarctic that the global warming cult tells us is melting at an a!arming and sea level raising rate. Now they are attempting to blame too much ice on global warming, the fun never ends with this bunch.


    "The ice caused the adult penguins to journey 100 kilometers (62 miles) more than they would normally in search of food – they mostly eat krill. Meanwhile, the chicks were left hungry and unable to cope in the rainy conditions due to their down not being waterproof yet."
    "For the moment, sea ice is increasing and this is a problem for this species as it pushes the feeding place – the sea ice edge – farther away from their nesting place,” study leader Yan Ropert-Coudert, from France’s National Centre for Scientific Research, told The Guardian. “If it shrinks it would help but if it shrinks too much then the food chain they rely on may be impacted. Basically, as a creature of the sea ice, they need an optimum sea-ice cover to thrive.”

    http://www.iflscience.com/plants-an...-penguins-only-two-chicks-survived-this-year/
     
  2. tkolter

    tkolter Well-Known Member

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    Adapt or die, that is the lesson of Biological Evolutionary Theory maybe they need to move to another location next year and learn to eat more kinds of food.
     

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