Adelie+Penguin

Animal: Animal Group: Description of animal group || Adelie Penguins bird Adelie Penguins nest near shore and can dive down to 500 feet n the water. || Observation Describe your animal (Colour, size, body parts) || These penguins are mid-sized, being 46 to 75 cm in length and 3.9 to 5.8 kg in weight. Distinctive marks are the white ring surrounding the eye and the feathers at the base of the bill. These long feathers hide most of the red bill. The tail is a little longer than other penguins' tails. || Describe how your animal behaves (moves, flies, runs) || Like all penguins, the Adelie Penguin is highly social, foraging and nesting in groups. They also are very aggressive to other penguins (mostly Adelie) that steal stones from their nest. || Where it lives || The Adelie Penguin is a type of penguin common along the entire Antarctic coast and its nearby islands. || What it eats How it eats || The Adelie penguin is known to feed mainly on Antarctic krill, crystal krill (ice krill)Antarctic silverfish and Glacial Squid. || How does it have babies? How does it care for its babies? How long do they live? || The parents build circular mounds of stones and pebbles to make a nest for the baby penguins. The babies keep worm by the parent penguin putting them beneath a layer skin bellow the parents stomach. || What does it do during the day and night? || During the day Adelie Penguins look for krill and fish to feed themselves and their babies. Defending their nest and partner is a regular part of the daily routine. They have an overall reduction in activity-levels in the middle of the day, especially on warm midsummer afternoons. It is suggested that this cyclic activity minimum may be associated with the low heat tolerance of Adelie Penguins. || How has it changed over time in Antarctica? || It's official: there is nowhere left to hide from [|global warming]. The notion that Antarctica is the last continent not to be heating up because of [|climate change] is dead, according to a new study. The results suggest that the southernmost continent is warming roughly as fast as the rest of the planet. They overturn previous suggestions that only the Antarctic peninsula, which stretches points north towards South America, was heating up while the continent's interior cooled. When the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change published its 2007 report, it declared: "it is likely there has been significant anthropogenic warming over the past 50 years averaged over each continent (except Antarctica)". ||
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 * __**Description**__
 * Source 1: || http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adelie_Penguin ||
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 * Source 1: || http://www.antarcticconnection.com/antarctic/wildlife/penguins/adelie.shtml ||
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 * **__Activity:__**
 * Source 1: || http://www.coolantarctica.com/Antarctica%20fact%20file/wildlife/adelie_penguin.htm ||
 * Source 2: || http://www.virtualantarctica.com/downloads/downloads.htm ||
 * **Adaptations:**
 * Source 1: || http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16460-even-antarctica-is-now-feeling-the-heat-of-climate-change.html ||
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 * **Threats:** || Humans, overfishing, pollution, global warming, human presence affect negatively penguin colonies ||
 * Source 1: || http://news.softpedia.com/news/Penguins-Are-Threatened-By-Human-Activity-40529.shtml ||
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