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Penguins seeking food must now waddle 60km to the coast to fish. Over the years, the arduous journey has had a devastating effect on the size of the colony.
Since 2011 the colony of 160,000 penguins has shrunk to just 10,000, according to research carried out by the Climate Change Research Centre at Australia’s University of New South Wales. Scientists predict the colony will be gone in 20 years unless the sea ice breaks up or the giant iceberg, dubbed B09B, is dislodged.
Penguins have been recorded in the area for more than 100 years. But the outlook for the penguins remaining at Cape Denison is dire.
www.theguardian.com...
On a brighter note a colony just 8 km away are unaffected and seem to be thriving which begs the question why doesn't this colony move , I guess they either can't or won't because that is their home.
originally posted by: 727Sky
Creatures of habit without reasoning are usually the first to go when TSHTF.
That would be one heck of a walk for any creature...!
originally posted by: intrptr
originally posted by: 727Sky
Creatures of habit without reasoning are usually the first to go when TSHTF.
That would be one heck of a walk for any creature...!
If an earthquake struck your city, dropping overpasses and making roads impassible and you were stuck at work, you'd try and make it home, too.
Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge: “We are in the midst of perhaps the largest murre die-off ever recorded”… [In Homer] the beaches are “littered” with murre carcasses… A breeding colony in the Barren Islands that is usually teeming in late summer with adult murres tending their young was deserted this year… “nobody was home… In more than three decades of monitoring murres in the Barrens, we’ve never had complete reproduction failure before“… Similar failures occurred at some other nesting colonies.
originally posted by: intrptr
a reply to: 727Sky
Sorry, I was agreeing with you, to a point.
Creatures of habit without reasoning are usually the first to go when TSHTF.
Any critter making it to maturity, migrating and nesting is successful, has good reasoning.
originally posted by: intrptr
originally posted by: 727Sky
Creatures of habit without reasoning are usually the first to go when TSHTF.
That would be one heck of a walk for any creature...!
If an earthquake struck your city, dropping overpasses and making roads impassible and you were stuck at work, you'd try and make it home, too.
originally posted by: Aliensun
originally posted by: intrptr
originally posted by: 727Sky
Creatures of habit without reasoning are usually the first to go when TSHTF.
That would be one heck of a walk for any creature...!
If an earthquake struck your city, dropping overpasses and making roads impassible and you were stuck at work, you'd try and make it home, too.
Actually, a smart human would declare it was time to move out of California and back to the plains states.
Kinda puts our petty squabbles and troubles into perspective , how lucky we are.
Kinda puts our petty squabbles and troubles into perspective , how lucky we are.
Everytime a story concerning animals is posted you just know someone will make a comment about how "us humans can learn from them" or some drivel like that.
The comment was more aimed toward our troubles are mainly of our own making ,
we are lucky that we are who or what we are but some people seem to lose sight of that , sigh if you must.
They're facing catastrophe , we're facing catastrophe , what can we learn.
So you admit it has absolutely nothing to do with the fate of a colony of penguins.
Nothing to do with this colony of penguins. Drivel I tell you.
*Facepalm*. Nothing. There is nothing that we can learn from this. Isn't that the point I just made in that quote? Lol.
I didn't say it did , these things happen I am just highlighting it not apportioning blame.
If you say so.
It was rhetorical.