Antarctic Penguins

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May 22, 2014

 

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Adult weights are 5kg (11lb) for the Adelie and 30kg (66lb) for the Emperor’ (Ward, 2001). The basic premise is that the larger the animal the smaller the size to surface area ratio is. If a little blue penguin (Eudyptula minor) was to live in Antarctic conditions it would loose a greater amount of body heat relative to its small size than an Emperor (Aptenodytes forsteri) penguin and this inefficiency would limit its chance of survival...
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Another factor is the abundance of food, in the Antarctic the food supply is vast and consistent due to such things as the convergence zone and seasonal plankton blooms contrast this to the Galapagos Islands where food supplies vary immensely due to the climate and currents. Because of this the Galapagos penguin (Spheniscus mendiculus) is a smaller species of penguin compared to the emperor penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri)...
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