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We have been a problem for ALL animals for more than 10,000 years, and now we have polluted the earth so bad that flowers are blooming in Antartica, just image your children in the future asking “Dad/mom what’s a penguin?” submitted by /u/Brunard0 [link] [comments]

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Names for Nick Jr Animals

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These guys are all different species and genders, tho despite that, they still coexist with one another without killing each other somehow. These guys are sometimes called the Nick Jr animals, tho their group name will be called something else. Anyways, here are all their names and genders.

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Angry Birds, What’s Black and White and Hungry All Over, and a Little Something for the Ladies: This Week in Bird News

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It’s a feeding frenzy in southern Argentina, as one million-plus Magellanic Penguins descend on Punta Tombo’s beaches due to an unusual glut of sardines and anchovies. The law of unintended consequences has tragic effects at a zoo in England, as rat poison ends up killing the Rainbow Lorikeets it was intended to protect.

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Birding and Safari-ing South Africa with the ABA

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I wanted Penguins. The African Penguins (formerly known as Jackass Penguins) were pretty much a “gotcha”, but I was still tremendously excited to see them on two field trips–the Boulders colony by False Bay and at the Stony Point colony at Betty’s Bay in the Western Cape. And Sunbirds.

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Flock to Marion

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The changing climate meant milder winters that kill off fewer mice and more mice meant more pressure on their food supply of vegetation and insects, such as the endemic flightless moth species, causing them to turn their appetites to the baby seabirds sitting helplessly all over the island. Southern Rockhopper Penguin.

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Climate Change and Birds

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Then, as often happens, a PhD student (one of mine) by the name of Rusty Low came along and proved that the Holocene was full of all sorts of rapid climate change thus killing my beautiful hypothesis with a bunch of ugly facts. Penguin: Is their goose cooked? Penguins can be trapped in low areas created by breaking up ice.

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Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History from Cave Art to Conservation–A Book Review

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Yet Birkhead credits British ornithologist Edmund Selous with sparking the world’s interest in watching rather than killing birds, despite the fact that Bailey’s “interest in bird-watching predates his,” as he admits in a footnote (p. The difference seems to be that Selous had previously killed birds and she had not.