The image of the new colony was taken in mid-October 2021 by the Worldview-3 satellite operated by Maxar Technologies, a private satellite operator, as part of the EU’s own Copernicus-2 satellite mission. The evaluation by researchers now came about in the...
Emperor penguins are apex predators, almost at top of the food web. As such, they feed on smaller animals from lower levels of the food web, which in turn may have ingested microplastic particles and passed them on to the predators – a process called trophic...
When emperor penguins fledge, they lose their grayish-white downs and the characteristic facial coloring is lost. The young spend their first few years foraging, migrating thousands of kilometers, often outside non-fishing areas. (Photo: Dr Michael Wenger) The life of...
Quark Expeditions will have the Snow Hill emperor penguin colony back on the schedule in November 2023. (Image: Rosamaria Kubny) After being absent for several years, Quark Expeditions has announced the return to the rarely visited emperor penguin colony on Snow Hill...
Emperor penguins are particularly vulnerable to climate change. If the fast ice disappears, their breeding sites are also lost. Already, some colonies have had to find new, safer locations. But this is not possible everywhere in Antarctica. Photo: Heiner Kubny The...
