Kingpenguins breed on many of the sub-Antarctic islands between 45 and 55 degrees SouthKingpenguins are in deep trouble if nothing is done to constrain climate change, researchers say.
So it was a big surprise to discover wild leopard seals feeding alongside one another while eating kingpenguins at SouthGeorgia, a remote island in the southern Atlantic Ocean.
This story appears in the December 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. SouthGeorgia rises sheer and stark from the sea, a hundred-mile arc of dark Antarctic peaks, ice fields, and hanging ...
Bird flu has been confirmed in 10 penguins on SouthGeorgia, one of the world's great wildlife havens. Avian influenza had already infected other seabirds and mammals on the British Overseas ...
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