The study suggests that even the faintest hint of penguin droppings in the water is enough to prompt krill into escape ...
Krill are a keystone species in the Antarctic, but their population is moving further south due to climate change.
Just a faint whiff of penguin poop pushes their favorite prey to take "frantic" evasive action, reveals new research.
The discovery of these penguin colonies might sound like good news, but the joy won't last long as climate change surges.
The team focused on Adélies, the most southernly breeding species of penguin, as 99.6% of their diet consists of Antarctic krill. An adult Adélie consumes thousands of krill at a time at rapid ...
The penguins breed on fast ice, which is sea ice attached to land. But they hunt for food within the pack ice – sea ice floes that move with the wind or ocean currents and may merge. Sea ice is ...