Re:Antarctica: Thousands of emperor penguin chicks died in 2...
by jeffwass on Thursday April 25, 2019 @07:28AM
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From the article’s first paragraph, which was in bold:
“Thousands of emperor penguin chicks drowned when the sea-ice on which they were being raised was destroyed in severe weather.”
And for some context on what ‘thousands’ means relative to the global population of emperor penguins :
“But the Brunt population, which had sustained an average of 14,000 to 25,000 breeding pairs for several decades (5-9% of the global population), essentially disappeared overnight.”
“Thousands of emperor penguin chicks drowned when the sea-ice on which they were being raised was destroyed in severe weather.”
And for some context on what ‘thousands’ means relative to the global population of emperor penguins :
“But the Brunt population, which had sustained an average of 14,000 to 25,000 breeding pairs for several decades (5-9% of the global population), essentially disappeared overnight.”