The world’s first penguin biologist to study a large colony of the animals up close, George Murray Levick, was marooned in ...

Adelie penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae) belong to the penguin family Spheniscidae. They also go by the name brush-tailed ...

Adélie Penguins are faithful to their partners and also to their nest sites. They come back to the same nests every year, almost to the inch, Jongsomjit says. "In winter, they're swimming thousands of ...

This behavior, never before filmed for television, shows the chicks launching themselves into the frigid ocean far below for their inaugural swim. Another remarkable “secret” is the parenting practice ...

Adelie Penguin at Paulet island, Antarctica. Image by FOTO4440 via Depositphotos Penguins can perform “porpoising,” where they leap out of the water while swimming. This helps them to breathe and can ...

These penguins are recognized for their fast swimming abilities, reaching speeds of up to 36 km/h (22 mph). The IUCN lists them as Near Threatened, primarily due to habitat disturbance and climate ...

Secondly, the ideal ice concentration for penguins is 80%, so they can dive, swim, jump and rest on the drifting ice ... held back by recovering whale populations that also eat krill. Adelie colonies ...

New research suggests that the presence of penguin poop causes krill to lose ... Sometimes the krill would stop swimming altogether, allowing the flow of water in their holding tanks to carry ...

An Adelie penguin colony in East Antarctica ... unlike their typical straight swim,” she said. “We don’t know what chemical is in the poo that they detect but they try to get away from ...

Scientists have shown for the first time that Antarctic krill show a stereotypical reaction in the presence of guano from Adélie penguins: they swim faster and make more turns over greater angles. It ...

“Here we show for the first time that a small amount of penguin guano causes a sudden change in the feeding and swimming behaviors of Antarctic krill,” said Dr. Nicole Hellessey, a postdoctoral ...

Guano was collected from a local Adelie penguin colony on Torgersen Island ... In this study we found that krill modify both their ingestion rates and swimming behaviour in response to penguin guano.