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Now more dead ends to a Penguin's life
Jul 2 2008, Kushal Arora

Magellanic penguins live off the coasts of Chile and Argentina and also on the Falkland islands. There was a time when they were in huge numbers, but today their number is only dwindling. P. Dee Boersma, a biologist at the University of Washington,...

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