WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s a challenge for all new parents: Getting enough sleep while keeping a close eye on their newborns. For some penguins, it means thousands of mini-catnaps a day, researchers discovered. Chinstrap penguins in Antarctica need to guard their eggs and chicks around-the-clock in crowded, noisy colonies. So […]
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(Reuters) – SeaWorld San Diego has welcomed the hatching of an emperor penguin for the first time in 13 years, announcing on Wednesday that the female chick came out of its shell with help from zoo staff on Sept. 12. “This is the most exciting thing we’ll do all year, […]
Bertelsmann has named Nihar Malaviya as permanent CEO of Penguin Random House, nine months after he was appointed the interim chief executive ByThe Associated Press September 18, 2023, 1:12 PM NEW YORK — Nihar Malaviya has been named as permanent CEO of Penguin Random House, nine months after he was […]
Zoo horror as penguin is found decapitated in its enclosure, with its head left beside its body, prompting police hunt for killer By Miriam Kuepper Updated: 17:05 BST, 29 August 2023 A penguin has been found decapitated in its enclosure with its head left next to its body, prompting police […]
Most penguins look like they’re wearing a little waistcoat. But this ‘all-black’ bird snapped in Antarctica looks like it’s wearing a snazzy cookies and cream vest. The Gentoo penguin (Pygoscelis papua) has a condition called melanism, where too much of the dark pigment melanin has been produced, making it blacker than […]
This unusual gentoo penguin has exceptionally dark plumage Rocio Nigro, Anahi M. Silvestro, Mariana Juares and Pamela Di Marco A gentoo penguin with unusually dark plumage has been spotted in Antarctica. The bird is only the second gentoo penguin ever to be documented with melanism, a condition that causes the […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The loss of ice in one region of Antarctica last year likely resulted in none of the emperor penguin chicks surviving in four colonies, researchers reported Thursday. Emperor penguins hatch their eggs and raise their chicks on the ice that forms around the continent each Antarctic winter […]
Emperor penguins breed in colonies on sea ice David Merron/Getty Images Record sea ice loss caused a mass die-off of emperor penguin chicks in part of Antarctica last year, bolstering predictions that the world’s largest penguin will soon be in danger of extinction. Unlike other penguins, emperors (Aptenodytes forsteri) breed […]