Adélie Penguins on Antarctic Peninsula

Adélie penguins, filmed near Palmer Station, on the Antarctica Peninsula. Biologist Bill Fraser has studied penguins in this region for 30 years. He has shown that the Adélie population has plummeted. When he first traveled to Palmer Station, in the 1970s, the ice floes and rocky outcrops near the U.S. research base were thick with the knee-high birds; and the constant, almost deafening roar of their calls made it impossible to hold a conversation. That population has shrunk by about 80 percent since he began studying it in 1974. He expects Adélies to be extinct in the region in a matter of a few years.

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Pets & Animals

Tags:

• Antarctica
• Palmer Station
• Antarctic Pennisula
• Adelie Penguins
• Global Warming
• Climate Change
• Species Extinction