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King Penguins Declining Due o Global Warming
Populations of the large birds on Possession Island in the Indian Ocean's Crozet Archipelago are declining as sea temperatures warm and the birds are forced to travel longer distances to find food.
Researchers tagged a king penguin colony and monitored it over nine years while also measuring sea-surface temperatures.
"We wanted to see what effect climate change was having on the breeding and survival of the penguins," said lead study author Yvon Le Maho, research director at the National Center for Scientific Research in Strasbourg, France.
The study appears today in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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