Researchers sound alarm over Antarctic penguin chick deaths
BERLIN (AP) " Scientists say thousands of chicks from an Adelie penguin colony in the eastern Antarctic died of starvation last summer " the second such die-off in over 40 years.Yan Ropert-Coudert, a marine ecologist with the French science agency CNRS who led the research, said Sunday that the "catastrophic breeding failure" occurred because unusually large amounts of sea ice forced penguin parents to travel farther to search for food.By the time they returned, only two chicks [...]
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