10,000 Birds

JANUARY 14, 2013

Their habitat is fast-running, rocky streams and rivers where they feed on aquatic invertebrates and insects, larvae, mollusks and small fish. Their aquatic adaptations include dense plumage and a membrane that seals the bird’s nostrils during dives like the one above.

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Switzerland New York City 2000 Seals 175

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

They eat only seafood, including fish, squid, krill and other organisms. And, they wear tuxedos, which seem to provide camouflage while they are swimming, where leopard seals, sharks, and other creatures would like to make a meal of them. People call them “flightless birds&# but they do in fact fly; They just do it underwater.

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Penguins Seals Peru Science 194

Animal Ethics

JANUARY 9, 2008

But most important, they are beginning to starve, because the sea ice they depend on for hunting seals, their main food, is melting at a very rapid rate because of global warming. They are also endangered by a loss of habitat, as energy companies encroach on more and more of their territory for oil and gas operations.

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New York Times Polar Bears New York Bears 40

10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2013

What put this once small fishing town on the map was not birds but mammals, specifically whales and dolphins. Sperm Whales feed deep, diving to the bottom of the trench, hunting for a while, then rising again to catch a breath. I always seem to see Kaikoura at dawn. The trick to finding Sperm Whales lies in their biology, we learned.

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