Set in Antarctica, it has no human characters but focuses on the natural environment of the frozen continent, especially penguins and skuas. |
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On top of that I wrote another two scenes of my sitcom yesterday, and managed to crowbar in a reference to penguins. |
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Eagles, vultures, penguins, ravens, crows, doves, and ostriches are just a few of the birds that do double time as species and symbols. |
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Withered crones filled every seat, wrapped in thick black woolen coats, huddled forwards like emperor penguins defending their young. |
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The emperor penguins are monogamous for a year, have a baby chicken, and then part their ways. |
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Some penguins waddle along shorelines and ice, whereas others hop from rock to rock. |
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Next time you're looking at those pretty penguins, make sure you keep your distance. |
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The cast includes rabbits, pigs, cows, cats, scorpions, seagulls, snails, penguins and bats. |
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In addition to sheathbills, he worked on albatrosses, petrels, penguins, and terrestrial invertebrates. |
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One group is studying kelp gulls, south polar skuas and sheathbills and another group is studying Adelie penguins. |
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And let's make sure the ordinary regular punter is not sidelined by jolly boy once-a-year penguins in their toppers! |
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Research by Ponganis and Kooyman suggests emperor penguins are metabolically adapted to conserve oxygen while swimming. |
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Newly arrived penguins from South America will join the Safari Park elephants, tigers, lions, birds, tiglons and ligers. |
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The erect-crested penguin is one of five species known as crested penguins. |
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Shore trips aboard inflatables will provide a closeup view of fjords and cliffs with abundant sea life, penguins, birds and dramatic cliffs. |
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I knew it was going to be a long day when I saw three penguins dancing the conga across the main reception hall. |
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The penguins ingest the oil as they preen their feathers, which changes the birds' immune systems, making them more vulnerable to disease. |
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Adelie and emperor penguins, Antarctic petrels and Weddell seals, Ross Sea killer whales and colossal squid all thrive in these remote waters. |
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I don't think that cold water necessarily is always associated with penguins. |
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The lure of eight species of penguins and more than 50 other seabird species is enormous. |
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You can drive in five minutes from the centre of town to the viewing place for the blue penguins, or allow more time and walk there. |
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Green sea turtles rest on the shore and penguins are waddling off for a swim. |
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The island is only a quarter of a square mile in size, but it is teeming with penguins and other sea birds. |
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This zoo was the first in the world to exhibit penguins and it now has Europe's largest penguin pool. |
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Just as we surfaced, two penguins torpedoed by, leaping out of the water and bouncing, like so many skipping stones. |
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It's obvious that global warming has an impact on the reproduction of the penguins. |
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In more recent decades, the penguins have been harmed by increased oil pollution. |
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A viewing camera allows me to see the penguins not just marching, but swimming under water. |
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Among a sea of peely-wally politicians at their HQ on Edinburgh's George IV Bridge Tommy stands out like a peacock among penguins. |
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A high bank angle is characteristic of penguins and sea lions which also lack a dorsal fin and turn using elongate pectoral flippers. |
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Flocks of penguins occasionally appear where they have dipped into the sea from ice-free pockets near the shore. |
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With less krill to go around during the ice-free years, fewer penguins survive to adulthood. |
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On a recent day, the squawking penguins were busily finding partners, preparing nests and waddling about the mating grounds. |
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Otway is doing all it can to persuade local fishermen to cut penguins free from their nets when they get entangled with a catch. |
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The first team to dismount one of the opposing team's penguins with a jousting lance is declared the winner. |
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Giant petrels, wandering albatrosses, penguins and other sea birds are getting caught in fishing tackle and dying by the tens of thousands. |
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The wandering albatross, king penguins, hundreds of pelagic birds, sea lions, and icebergs will be there, too. |
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Against a painted Antarctic backdrop of glaciers, icebergs and floes, groups of stately Emperor penguins pose like actors at curtain call. |
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On the pebbly beach we immediately encounter the first of the thousands of penguins we will meet over the next week and a half. |
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But the biggest issues for me, mate, was sealing, whaling and the killing of penguins. |
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On land penguins also have a number of enemies which include leopards, caraculs, kelp gulls and mongooses. |
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There are hundreds of different types of birds including five types of penguins, albatrosses, and cara caras. |
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It's penguins, albatrosses, caracaras, steamer ducks and a couple of endemic small jobs you've come for. |
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A variety of birds make their homes around the harbour including yellow eyed and blue penguins, black back gulls, and five types of cormorants. |
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Although their habitat is warmer than that of emperor penguins, king penguins have four layers of feathers and huddle together for warmth. |
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The rest stay aboard a 233-foot Finnish research vessel, taking day trips to see the island's king penguins, elephant seals, and giant petrels. |
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Similar in size to present-day yellow-eyed or king penguins, Waimanu penguins stood about 26 to 30 inches tall. |
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All other birds, from loons and penguins to woodpeckers and sparrows, are placed together in the third main lineage, the Neoaves. |
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Five Puffinus species attained allometrically scaled maximum depths comparable to those of penguins and alcids. |
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Raging hormones might help explain why female emperor penguins that have lost a baby sometimes kidnap the chick of another. |
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The seals also displace the penguins from breeding sites and, together with great white sharks, prey on the penguins. |
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They're raised with enough clearance so the penguins can waddle under them on the way to their burrows. |
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Diet consists of squid, octopus, anchovies, lanternfish, hoki, and sometimes penguins. |
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In the literature, some forms of penguins have been alternatively treated as superspecies, species, or subspecies. |
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We saw giraffes, penguins, kangaroos, polar bears, cassowaries etc., so there were quite a few animals which were unusual in that environment. |
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In this species, fathers care for and hatch the eggs, while female penguins head out to sea to feed. |
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Rescue teams also temporarily relocated 20,000 additional penguins from an island in the oil slick's path. |
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They are home to sea lions, penguins, flamingos, iguanas, giant tortoises, and many other animals. |
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To coincide with the International Polar Year, this year's theme is the Arctic and Antarctic, home of polar bears and penguins. |
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Apart from those already mentioned there are zebras, camels, baboons, lemurs, sea lions, humboldt penguins, tapirs and meerkats. |
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Tony, an avid collector of spongy penguins given out at various Linux events, now thinks computers were created by penguins, or vice versa. |
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To catch penguins, a leopard seal will lurk near the water's edge just under the surface to watch shadows on the ice above. |
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Next year Williams and Winstanley plan to travel to Antarctica, where they will dive under the ice to paint leopard seals attacking penguins. |
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Parrots in the wardroom, Great Danes leading errant sailors home, prone penguins, reindeer wandering around submarines. |
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But the signs were puzzling as they led us to every type of animal, from penguins to lions, EXCEPT the giant panda. |
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A group of 12 ringers went out to Dassen Island today to band unoiled penguins there. |
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On the way out I noticed penguins gathered by the visitors' centre fence, undeterred by humans, watching, motionless. |
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The penguins can be viewed, not just from a sloping arena but also from underwater viewing areas. |
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The rest of the men waited on a piece of rock inhabited by penguins, seals, and ice in the hope of their captain's return. |
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It turns out that he has a particular fondness for penguins, and has taken it upon himself to create a rookery for them. |
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He speaks about penguins having to cease making their rookeries and nests when the wind gusts are really strong. |
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Compared with long-legged ostriches striding across a plain, waddling penguins come up short. |
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Previous data support a significant relationship between sea-surface temperature and the breeding success of krill-loving gentoo penguins. |
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Living in Cape Town I am lucky to have white sharks, southern right whales, Cape fur seals, and African penguins on my doorstep. |
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Tiny fairy penguins body-surf onto the beach, struggle to their feet, and waddle up to their custom-made nesting shelters. |
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They are cheered on by penguins and interrupted by a kitten halftime show after the first hour. |
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There's a stiff breeze coming off the Indian Ocean and the surfies are clustered in groups, waddling around in their wetsuits like hipster penguins. |
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In their cheerleader personas, the penguins took over the stadium, entering through the igloo. |
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While king penguins are a sub-Antarctic species, being based on islands dotted around the continent, emperor penguins are animals of the deep south. |
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However, for alcids and diving-petrels that also fly in air, forelimb joint mobility is much lower than in penguins, probably due to constraints of aerial flight. |
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Depending on the species, whales are either major consumers of plankton or krill or they are major predators, feeding on seals, fish, and penguins. |
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The Emperor penguins are large and found only in the Antarctic regions. |
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Baby emperor penguins peek out from pouches just over their fathers' feet. |
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I don't think penguins featured largely in Tolkien's mythosphere. |
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Some interesting exceptions to the correlation between body size and pneumaticity occur in birds that dive underwater to feed, such as grebes, loons, and penguins. |
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These animals include giraffes, penguins, macaques, bonobos, and geese. |
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This is true for minke whale, Antarctic fur seal, Adelie, chinstrap, gentoo and macaroni penguins, black-browed albatross, and white-chinned and cape petrels. |
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Commercial fishing also impacts macaroni penguins in Antarctica. |
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Female penguins don't eat for at least a week before laying an egg or two. |
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Miller, the Happy Feet consultant, says tens of thousands of penguins die every year from oil pollution that may occur when ships clean out their bilges. |
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I began the day by intentionally misidentifying seals as penguins. |
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Luckily, as filming wrapped up no one had been nipped, and the penguins we safely returned to their carriers. |
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Five of the penguins which were bludgeoned to death in a brutal attack on six penguins, two gannets and two pelicans at the East London aquarium on Sunday night. |
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Keepers haven't seen any vulpine intruders for several months in the 67-acre enclosure, but the penguins continue to be kept under lock and key for their own safety. |
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Seabirds like pelicans, penguins, and cormorants are highly vulnerable to oil, which can cover their feathers with a gluelike substance that can immobilize the animals. |
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It apparently shows him swimming with whales and sliding with penguins. |
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The project is expected to be long term, with the igloos remaining in the area as protective enclosures, shielding the penguins from dangers of domestic animals. |
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You just couldn't get a good fish filleter for love nor money, and he was absolutely certain that none of the penguins he knew washed their flippers before meals. |
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Avian swimmers such as penguins and puffins and ducks and cormorants, as well as sea turtles and other water-dwelling reptiles, must also come up for air. |
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Indeed, the social stimulation derived from the calling and courting of neighbors in the colony has been shown to hasten the development of eggs in crested penguins. |
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Some flightless birds, such as living penguins, puffins, and rails, and the extinct auks and phororhacoids, are classified in the Neognathae along with most flying birds. |
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Cameraman Didier Noirot was the one who got close-up and personal with the Emperor penguins for some of the best shots in this week's episode. |
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Mumble chases after them and returns to discover an iceberg has slammed into their home, trapping the Emperor penguins. |
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But whereas most birds have rows of feathers with bare skin between them, emperor penguins have a dense, uniform coat of feathers. |
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Emperor penguins have four overlapping layers of feathers, keeping them warm. |
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Many species, such as gulls, auks and penguins, retain the same mate for several seasons, and many petrel species mate for life. |
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The flightless penguins are all located in the Southern Hemisphere, with the greatest concentration located on and around Antarctica. |
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Other predators include tunas, sharks, swordfish, sea turtles, penguins, and at least one species of Pacific salmon. |
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King penguins, chinstrap penguins, and gentoo penguins also breed in the Antarctic. |
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Antarctic sea life includes penguins, blue whales, orcas, colossal squids and fur seals. |
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There were night penguins that emitted green light only when hunting in dark seas, and merlions whose manes were fringed with pallid lavender. |
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Clinical signs in the penguins included cutaneous papules and nodules around eyelids and beaks, depression, and restriction in weight gain. |
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Captain James Cook and party on 31st March, 1773, first discovered the fairy penguins at Duskey Bay, New Zealand. |
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Nevertheless, they are not closely related to penguins, but rather are believed to be an example of moderate convergent evolution. |
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No further cases were observed in penguins in the subsequent year, and the primary cause of the salt gland adenitis remains uncertain. |
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In the Falkland Islands, hundreds of thousands of penguins were harvested for their oil each year. |
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F Wednesday nights have been missing anything, surely it's shots of fluffy penguins, grouchy camels and cute squirrel monkeys. |
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Here we have phantom penguins working their way into the lives of the real birds, one of whom takes a shine to the new robot spycam in his midst. |
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Moreover, fungal spondylitis and spondylopathy have also been encountered in penguins. |
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Humboldt penguins had a unique presentation, forming variably pigmented, cornified lesions in the inguinal area. |
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Gigs on every continent saw Nunatak playing before penguins at a research station in Antarctica. |
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Other birds that have adapted to oceans as their living space are penguins, seagulls and pelicans. |
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While pinnipeds mostly hunt in the water, South American sea lions are known to chase down penguins on land. |
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Of three orca ecotypes in the Antarctic, one preys on minke whales, the second on seals and penguins and the third on fish. |
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They are solitary predators and eat everything from penguins and krill to other seals, particularly crabeater seals. |
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Just as much as the sharks will have you quivering with fear, the family of Gentoo penguins will have you quivering with laughter. |
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Perfluorooctanesulfonate and related fluorochemicals in albatrosses, elephant seals, penguins, and polar skuas from the Southern Ocean. |
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In the wild, orcas slide up onto ice floes and beaches to capture seals or penguins. |
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I'm really looking forward to visiting Peninsula Valdes to see the southern right whales, sea elephants and penguins. |
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Now as the 30 penguins enter another breeding season, the Folly Farm team say the young lovers are still as dedicated to one another a year on. |
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The penguins are revealed to be fluffy toy penguins in the final frame. |
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But down by the water's edge porpoising adelie penguins are jumping ashore clean, wet and plump from the icy Southern Ocean. |
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Just don't ask which porthole Levick was spying on the fornicating penguins from. |
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Leaving the colony of Adelie, Gentoo, King and Rockhopper penguins behind, there is plenty more to enjoy at SeaWorld. |
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As the penguins prepare to strike, a hungry leopard seal spots a member of the flock. |
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I have stood in the empty rookeries of displaced Adelie penguins, and felt a chill from the receding ice of the Antarctic Peninsula. |
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The species is also known as the jackass penguin because they bray like donkeys and African penguins because they'renative to South Africa. |
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This is home to thousands of wandering albatrosses, giant petrels, penguins and fur seals. |
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Cute gentoo penguins rocket from the depths of their tank to flop out on the ice as the thermometer drops. |
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For 13 years, researchers collected data on the foraging ability of chick-rearing Adelie penguins on Ross Island, Antarctica. |
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Meanwhile, at Ross Island in Antarctica, Adelie penguins are struggling to feed themselves as melting sea ice breaks away into giant icebergs. |
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The penguin was housed in an indoor exhibit with 30 macaroni penguins, 20 rockhopper penguins, and 15 king penguins. |
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Discards generally benefit surface feeders, such as gannets and petrels, to the detriment of pursuit divers like penguins. |
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The artists pored over hours of footage of Adelie penguins to recreate his waddle, dive and even the way his eyes open. |
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Emperor penguins and Weddell seals may see dramatic declines by the end of this century. |
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Adelie penguins are one of the smallest and most widely found penguins in the Antarctic. |
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It grows colder, and grayer, and penguins cry in the night, and huge amphibians moan and slubber. |
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Tourists travel all the way to Antarctica to catch a glimpse of emperor penguins, elephant seals, and humpback whales. |
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The leopard seal, a prolific predator of penguins, is known to violently swing its prey back and forth until it is decapitated. |
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Not long afterwards, Admiral Joris van Spilbergen reported catching penguins and sheep on Robben Island. |
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Among the most notable animals in the archipelago are austral parakeets, sea gulls, guanacos, foxes, kingfishers, condors, king penguins, owls, and firecrown hummingbirds. |
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The gentoo penguins, aged five and seven, began their romance a year ago. |
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The Polar Adventure arena features king penguins, southern rockhopper penguins, gentoo penguins, pacific walruses, spotted seals, northern sea lions and snowy owls. |
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The 10 King penguins and 10 Gentoo penguins were raised inside SeaWorld's facilities and have never known what it's like to live in the landscape of the Antarctic. |
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But with their new friends Jimbo the bug-eyed blob fish, Lulu the snippy lobster and a whole family of penguins, Sammy and Ray hatch breakout plans of their own. |
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This volume could become a toddler's first introduction to marine biology, with a parent turning pages and pointing out sea horses, penguins, marine iguanas. |
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The Antarctic island of South Georgia is home to millions of king penguins and emperor penguins, as well as colonies of elephant seals and albatrosses. |
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This is the northern edge of the known range of juvenile Emperor penguins. |
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Mumble chases after the little ones and returns home to discover a giant iceberg has slammed into their home, trapping all of the Emperor penguins to certain doom. |
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The researchers used cotton swabs to collect preen oil from the penguins. |
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Producers of the show say it will transport children to imaginary lands with lush jungles and dancing elephants and Arctic ice floes with tap dancing penguins. |
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The pupils met black and white ruffed lemurs, Broom and Olivia, the Rothschild's giraffe family, Sumatran tigers Joaoand Daseep, before heading up to visit the penguins. |
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But at the same time, the African and Northern Rockhopper penguins have joined the endangered list, which also includes the Erect-Crested, Yellow-Eyed and Galapagos penguins. |
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Audubon has raised 46 chicks since the Aquarium opened in 1990 and currently is home to 31 African Blackfooted penguins and three Southern Rockhopper penguins. |
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Among his subjects are such exotics as Bengal tigers, large and small crabs, emperor penguins, giant squid, kookaburras, meerkats, pronghorn, and wandering albatrosses. |
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We investigated the paternity of 39 Adelie penguins hatched at the Port of Nagoya Public Aquarium between 1995 and 2005 breeding seasons using microsatellite DNA markers. |
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Adelie penguins have long shown evidence of DDT, but not in enough concentration to hurt the birds, said Heidi Geisz of the Virginia Institute of Marine Science. |
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And during the winter, flocks of penguins migrate from Antarctica. |
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These areas support tundra vegetation consisting of mosses, lichens, and algae, while seabirds, penguins, and seals feed in the surrounding waters. |
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Ships in the Passage are often good platforms for the sighting of whales, dolphins and seabirds including giant petrels, other petrels, albatrosses and penguins. |
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Organisms native to Antarctica include many types of algae, bacteria, fungi, plants, protista, and certain animals, such as mites, nematodes, penguins, seals and tardigrades. |
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Herons have been observed visiting water enclosures in zoos, such as spaces for penguins, otters, pelicans, and seals, and taking food meant for the animals on display. |
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It is perhaps notable that some early penguins had skulls and beaks that were in many aspects similar to those of the living and fossil Gaviiformes. |
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Zitterbart said that he was really surprised to learn that a travelling wave can be triggered by any penguin in a huddle rather than penguins on the outside trying to push in. |
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Adelie penguins, meanwhile, have their work cut out keeping their chicks safe from skuas, and a minke whale suffers at the hands of a family of killer whales. |
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Antarctic penguins and crabeater seals are already declining. |
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