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Is hunting whales affecting the diet of penguins?
Jul 23 2007, Kanchan

Adeline penguins live on the Antarctic continent and on many small, surrounding coastal islands. They spend the winter offshore in the seas surrounding the Antarctic pack ice. Initially these birds feasted on a diet based only on fish, which now...

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