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A long-term study shows the subtle hand of natural selection on Argentina’s Magellanic penguins.<br />
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If <a href="http://giphy.com/search/penguin" rel="nofollow">you ask the internet</a>,
penguins are pretty much perfect as they are: cute, curious, and
clumsy. But the truth is, the “perfect” penguin might not always take
the same form.<br />
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Since 1983, biologist <a href="http://www.penguinstudies.org/p-dee-boersma-ph-d/" rel="nofollow">P. Dee Boersma</a> has been studying the world’s largest colony of <a href="http://www.penguinstudies.org/magellanic-penguins/" rel="nofollow">Magellanic penguins</a>
at Punta Tombo, Argentina, and has found that as environmental
conditions shift, the penguins show a resilience to those changes.
Boersma and her colleagues have measured a <em>lot</em> of penguins. And
they’ve been tracking whether and how everything—from their bills to
their flippers to their feet—has been changing over time.<br />
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“It’s kind of like a big general census,” says <a href="http://www.penguinstudies.org/laura-koehn/" rel="nofollow">Laura Koehn</a>, a doctoral candidate in fisheries science who worked with Boersma’s team as an undergraduate.<br />
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By marking penguins with ID bands, the researchers tracked how
successful each was at raising its young, which traits were passed down
through the generations, and whether certain parental traits, such as a
longer bill or shorter feet, led to a boost in survival for a penguin’s
offspring.<br />
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In general, Koehn says, they weren’t able to detect any evidence of modern penguin evolution—yet. The penguins aren’t <em>all</em>
getting bigger, for instance. But the team did find that, sometimes,
being a certain shape or size has perks, and that these traits are
passed down, which paves the way for evolution. Since different body
shapes provide different benefits, what could be considered the “ideal”
penguin for the conditions in any given year is fickle and variable, and
often reverses itself over time. But overall, the takeaway is clear:
even when conditions in their highly dynamic habitat aren’t the best, at
least some Magellanic penguins will have what it takes to succeed.<br />
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Boersma’s team found evidence of natural selection—that is, when
penguins of a particular size or shape raised chicks more successfully
than their peers—in seven of the 28 years examined. In those years, they
found that the trends for males and females seemed to be headed in
different directions. Furthermore, the timing didn’t always overlap.<br />
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In years when food seemed scarce and more than half the chicks died
of starvation, successful male dads tended to have larger bodies and
bills, perhaps because they could catch larger prey. In years when food
appeared abundant, males of all sizes raised chicks equally well.<br />
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In some years, female penguins with more petite bodies, or just with
shorter feet or smaller bills, had chicks which survived better. In
other years, the opposite was true.<br />
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Detecting even this small signal of ongoing natural selection is impressive, says biologist <a href="http://snr.unl.edu/aboutus/who/people/faculty-member.asp?pid=857" rel="nofollow">Mary Bomberger Brown</a>,
especially in a bird that splits its time between land and sea. It
requires precisely tracking and measuring large numbers of individuals
over long periods of time. Even then, she says, “the differences aren’t
going to be gigantic. A penguin flipper isn’t going to be four inches
[10 centimeters] longer one year than it was the previous year.”<br />
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“Overall, nobody’s shrinking or getting bigger,” emphasizes Koehn.
Instead, these year-to-year fluctuations tend to wash out over time.
That suggests, says Koehn, that whatever factors are driving these
changes—whether climate, food, or even behavior—are relatively stable
over time.<br />
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But if that stability is upset, the penguins have shown they have the
capacity within their population to survive. “When they are pushed,
they do respond,” says Brown.<br />
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Just how far and how fast that flexibility can be pushed, however, is uncertain.<br />
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Scientists are spending one-on-one time with penguins to learn about the deeper sides of their personalities.<br />
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Learning more about how daring or shy penguins succeed could help guide penguin conservation, Massey professor John Cockrem says.<br />
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He is part of a research team made up of masters students from Massey University and Dr Philippa Agnew, from the Oamaru Blue Penguin Colony, that is two weeks into an eight-week study of the Oamaru penguins.<br />
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The group will take blood tests to find the amount of corticosterone hormone each penguin secretes when handled. The amount indicates where the penguins fall on a "personality spectrum" of timid and cautious, to daring and dominating.<br />
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"There's a huge range," Cockrem said. "The ones that are less sensitive to their environment tend to be the dominant more aggressive ones. They are also not so fast to change.<br />
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"The ones that are more sensitive to what's happening around them, they are more shy and are slow to explore, but they are more flexible to change."<br />
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Once the scientists have determined where each penguin falls on this personality scale they will compare this with their success in breeding, recorded in the Colony's ongoing population monitoring.<br />
They will also use GPS to look at individuals' foraging patterns.<br />
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"The environment in which the birds live in is gradually changing. There are human influences and influences coming from climate change, so as these environmental changes occur, it may be that some animals are better able to change than other animals," Cockrem said.<br />
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However, that doesn't mean there is one perfect penguin personality.<br />
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"You might think it's good to have a high stress response, but then why aren't all animals like that?" he said.<br />
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"The hypothesis that I've put forward and that we're testing here is that in some years the dominant bolder ones might do better, but in other years the more sensitive animals, the reactive ones, will do better. There's no perfect response."<br />
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Further studies Cockrem is involved in are looking at where penguin populations in the North Island feed.<br />
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The information will be combined with the current study and past blue penguin data to help give a bigger picture of how penguin populations adapt and which feeding areas are most important for penguin conservation.<br />
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<a href="http://www.marylandzoo.org/">The Maryland Zoo in Baltimore</a> is excited to announce the hatching of three African Penguin chicks. They are the first to hatch during the 2016-2017 breeding season at the Zoo’s Penguin Coast exhibit. The first chick hatched on October 20 to parents Portia and Beckham while the next two chicks, offspring of Ascot and Dennis, hatched on October 22 and October 25.<br />
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“This breeding season is off to a wonderful start,” said Jen Kottyan, Avian Collection and Conservation Manager. “As soon as the nest boxes were made available to the Penguins again for the start of breeding season, the birds began exhibiting breeding behaviors and claiming their nests. We are really excited about the prospects for this season, and these three are just the beginning.”<br />
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Breeding season for the African Penguins at Penguin Coast begins in mid-September and lasts until the end of February, mimicking the spring/summer breeding season for these endangered birds in their native South Africa.<br />
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Penguin chicks will hatch 38-42 days after the eggs are laid. Zookeepers monitor development of the eggs by candling them about a week after they are laid to see if they are fertile and developing. The eggs are then placed back with the parents. “With African Penguins, both the male and the female take turns sitting on the eggs,” said Kottyan. “Once the eggs hatch, parents take turns caring for their offspring; they each protect, feed, and keep the chick warm for 2-3 days and then switch off.”<br />
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At Penguin Coast, chicks stay with their parents for about three weeks after they hatch and are fed regurgitated fish from their parents. During this time, zookeepers and vets keep a close eye on the development of the chicks, weighing and measuring them daily for the first week to make sure that the parents are properly caring for each chick.<br />
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When a chick is three-weeks-old, the keepers remove it from the nest, and start to teach the chick that they are the source of food. This step is critical, as it will allow staff to provide long term care for the birds including daily feeding, regular health exams and both routine and emergency medical care.<br />
The Maryland Zoo has been a leader in breeding African Penguins for close to 50 years, winning the prestigious Edward H. Bean Award for the “African Penguin Long-term Propagation Program” from the AZA in 1996. The Zoo has the largest colony of African Penguins in North America, with now over 75 birds.<br />
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“Our Penguins are bred according to recommendations from the AZA African Penguin SSP, which helps maintain their genetic diversity,” said Kottyan. “Many of the African Penguins previously bred at the Zoo now inhabit zoo and aquarium exhibits around the world.”<br />
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In September, Penguin Coast was awarded Top Honors in the Exhibit Award category from the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.aza.org/" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="Association of Zoos and Aquariums">Association of Zoos & Aquariums</a> (AZA) during the AZA Annual Conference. “This has been an exciting year for us already,” stated Kottyan. “We hosted the African Penguin Species Survival Plan (SSP) meeting in July, sent two staff to South Africa to participate in Penguin conservation programs in August and September, won the AZA Exhibit Award in September and now the breeding season is well underway with these successful hatchings.”<br />
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For updates on the chicks in the coming weeks, please visit <a href="http://www.marylandzoo.org/">www.marylandzoo.org</a> or the Zoo’s Facebook page: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/marylandzoo">www.facebook.com/marylandzoo</a> .<br />
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DEAKIN University researchers will investigate why more than half of the world’s penguin population is facing the threat of extinction.</div>
The researchers say the sentinel of the marine environment can provide insight into the health and productivity of oceans.<br />
Deakin University’s Centre for Integrative Ecology researcher Meagan Dewar will be gathering detailed data about microbes and their role in penguins’ digestion, metabolism, immune system and health.<br />
“Over 55 per cent of penguin species are facing extinction with climate change, fisheries, pollution and disease the major threats,” Dr Dewar said.<br />
“We don’t know enough about the crucial role that microbes play in penguin health, nutrition and physiology and this lack of information about what’s considered to be normal and what is pathogenic hampers our ability to diagnose disease in penguins in the wild.”<br />
Researchers from Deakin’s School of Life and Environmental Sciences are on a crowd-funding campaign to raise $10,000 to start the research.<br />
Dr Dewar said the money would help to sequence the microbes of 42 penguins from the King, Gentoo, Macaroni and Little penguin species.<br />
“This research will provide vital baseline information on the functional role of microbes in penguins and give us a better understanding of the impact of environmental change and disease,” she said.<br />
Dr Dewar said the research would build knowledge about the basic biology of penguins.<br />
“Funding for this type of time-consuming and meticulous work can be difficult to find, which is why we’ve turned to crowd-funding. We really need the help of any members of the public who are concerned about the ocean environment and love penguins to come together and support the campaign.”<br />
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A PENGUIN couple at Melbourne Aquarium has been celebrating the newest addition to their family as they farewell their eldest offspring.</div>
Mother KT and father Mawson welcomed Banjo, their first chick for 2016 while saying goodbye to three of their older children who left home for Sydney.<br />
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Banjo was born two weeks ago, weighing just 86 grams. Now he has tipped the scales at 915 grams thanks to his protective mum.<br />
While the proud parents were nurturing their new arrival Banjo, his older siblings Budda, Parky and Monty joined the first colony of Melbourne penguins to move for Sydney Aquarium’s Penguin Expedition.<br />
Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium lead bird keeper Amanda Hamilton was watching over Banjo’s growth as the parents continue to raise the chick.<br />
“Both mum and dad are doing a great job of the multiple daily feeds and sharing the hard work,” she said.<br />
“It’s a big time for [the] family as the eldest siblings make the exciting move to Sydney. But mum and dad will be kept nice and busy as Banjo will rely on the parents for some time before becoming fully fledged in approximately three months.”<br />
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The "personalities'' of penguins are under examination in Otago.<br />
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Massey University researchers are in Oamaru studying penguins' responses to handling and Massey comparative endocrinology professor John Cockrem said the study could help researchers find out if certain penguin characteristics make some better breeders or fishers.<br />
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"We're interested in what makes a successful penguin,'' Prof Cockrem said.<br />
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He and four Massey master's students, Henry Elsom, Shelley Ogle, Kelly Long and Rachel Choi, have been in Oamaru for the past five weeks testing stress responses of dozens among the hundreds of blue penguins that make their home in Oamaru Harbour.<br />
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Under the stress of handling by the researchers, blood samples taken would show the amount of the steroid hormone corticosterone an individual bird secreted while in distress.<br />
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Prof Cockrem said birds that showed high levels of the hormone, labelled "reactive personality'', or "high-stress birds'', might be considered more aware of what was going on around them. Those individuals with a relatively smaller response would be deemed "proactive'' penguins.<br />
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"There is a whole set of behavioural characteristics that go with that [blood testing], which together we call 'personality','' Prof Cockrem said.<br />
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"Are the birds, the 'higher-stress birds', with their particular personality, are they more successful than the 'low-stress birds'? ... How does this relate to the foraging? Are some birds consistently more successful at foraging than other birds?''<br />
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The extensive breeding data of individual birds compiled at the colony would be included in the study, as would new data showing foraging performance.<br />
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Oamaru Blue Penguin Colony marine biologist Dr Philippa Agnew said new devices could be attached to five birds to learn more about their days at sea.<br />
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Four sensors in a single device tracked: location of the birds; diving (with a pressure sensor); acceleration; and temperature.<br />
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The four measures would identify "prey pursuits'' as well as the "foraging effort'' of each bird - "how many times a day they dive, how far they go out to sea''.<br />
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them puts into it - and then look at things like chick growth,'' Dr Agnew said.<br />
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Once a bird returned, the data could be downloaded, the device could be recharged, and attached to a different bird.<br />
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Prof Cockrem first began collaborating with Dr Agnew in 2012.<br />
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This year's study could be applied to the conservation of penguins, and would produce joint publications between Massey University and the colony, a Massey media release, issued yesterday, said.<br />
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The current $660,000 upgrade of the Oamaru Blue Penguin Colony facilities, including upgraded research facilities, would hopefully make researchers' visits more common, Dr Agnew said.<br />
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<img height="269" src="http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/1611/6817a3d1dcb605a3f1fb.jpeg" width="400" /><br /><i>Researchers will look at hormones and personality in little penguins. </i><br />
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<strong>The 7 habits of highly effective penguins</strong><br />
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Researchers from Massey University and the Oamaru Blue Penguin Colony are working together to improve conservation of penguins by uncovering the characteristics of a successful penguin.<br />
The colony and the nearby Oamaru Creek Penguin Refuge have more than 300 breeding pairs of little penguins.<br />
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The researchers will measure responses of penguins to handling and see how these responses are related to breeding success, foraging behaviour and other features of their biology.<br />
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The team includes Massey Professor John Cockrem and one of New Zealand’s leading little penguin scientists, Dr Philippa Agnew from the Oamaru Blue Penguin Colony. They will be aided by Massey masters’ students Henry Elsom, Shelley Ogle, Kelly Long and Rachel Choi.<br />
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Professor Cockrem says, “Penguins secrete the steroid hormone corticosterone to help them adjust to short-term changes in their environment. We will study corticosterone responses in adults, and see how responses develop in chicks. Our work with Dr Agnew is an exciting chance to combine penguin corticosterone studies with the colony's long term breeding data.”<br />
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Once the data is collected, the team will look at individual variation in foraging and diving and prey capture behaviour, and look to determine if the behaviours are related to variation in corticosterone responses.<br />
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Professor Cockrem says, “Corticosterone and behavioural responses of birds to environmental stimuli are linked, with consistent individual responses known as personalities. Birds that are highly responsive are said to have a reactive personality and birds that have relatively smaller responses are said to have proactive personalities. We are interested in relationships between the different personalities and lifetime breeding success in the penguins.”<br />
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Outcomes of the project will include knowledge of the biology of little penguins that can be applied to the conservation of penguins, and joint publications between Massey University and the Colony. The projects being conducted by the students continue and extend the collaborative studies that Professor Cockrem and Dr Agnew began in 2012.<br />
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Dr Philippa Agnew says, “Training New Zealand’s future scientists is an important role and we are pleased to be able to provide assistance and the use of our facility to do so. I have very much enjoyed working with Professor Cockrem and his students. Henry, Shelley, Kelly and Rachel are all very capable and have successfully taken on the task of handling and sampling little penguins which, being wild animals, can sometimes be quite challenging.”<br />
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Additional work is being undertaken with Dr Agnew to guide penguins to use a new underpass that has been constructed so the penguins no longer have to cross a road.<br />
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Tourism Waitaki general manager, Mr Jason Gaskill says, “We welcome the on-going relationship with Massey University, Professor Cockrem and his students, and appreciate the world-leading work of Dr Agnew. The scientific credentials and reputation of the Colony she has spearheaded through relationships such as these reinforces the fact that recognised scientific rigour can comfortably coexist within a commercial framework, which is good for all involved.”<br />
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<em>Not only is Byculla zoo unfit to handle exotic animals, it does not even have basic emergency facilities; zoo had to borrow life-saving machines from Balaji hospital when Dory the penguin was struggling for life, but by then it was too late.</em><br /> <br />The death of a penguin last month has brought the spotlight firmly back on the poor infrastructure at Byculla zoo. Not only is it ill-equipped to handle foreign, exotic animals, it does not even have the basic infrastructure to tackle any emergency. Mumbai Mirror has found that the zoo does not even have a single oxygen cylinder – a fact that came to light after Dory the penguin died.<br /> <br />On October 22, when the one-anda-half year-old penguin was having trouble breathing and needed oxygen, zoo director Dr Sanjay Tripathi had to borrow an oxygen cylinder from the nearby Balaji Hospital. Zoo authorities have now kept the cylinder as stand-by in case of other emergencies. Dr Ramesh Kagzi, CEO of Balaji Hospital, confirmed that the hospital had provided an oxygen cylinder to the zoo for the penguin’s treatment. The hospital also sent an oxygen mask, pulse oxymetre, oxygen tubing, oxygen analyser and oxygen humidifiers, as the zoo did not have any of these lifesaving equipment.<br /> <br />A source from the zoo said that even though Dory was suffering from laboured breathing from October 18, the zoo authorities took four days to arrange for the oxygen cylinder, and only got one around 5 pm on October 22. It proved to be too late as Dory died at 8.15 am on October 23.<br /> <br />“There is no emergency treatment room in the current quarantine area, there is no emergency equipment, apart from a nebuliser,” the source added.<br /> <br />Denying any lapses or delay in Dory’s treatment, Dr Tripathi, told Mirror, “It is true that we don’t have an emergency room for penguins, but we do have a sick room in the quarantine area.” He also dismissed allegations of delay in getting the oxygen cylinder, saying, “We initially put her on nebuliser, as oxygen cylinder was not required at that time. When her condition deteriorated, we immediately borrowed one from Balaji. We did not waste a single minute in Dory’s treatment.”<br /> <br />The zoo director added that there were plans for a “proper, emergency ICU” for the penguins, but that will only happen when the penguin exhibit is ready. Incidentally, the eight Humboldt penguins were brought to Mumbai three months ago, on July 26.<br /> <br />Anand Siva, an animal activist, who is protesting the penguin project, “I don’t understand the logic behind bringing penguins to Byculla zoo. Forget penguins, the zoo is not suitable for any animal. So many animal have died in the past due to lack of medical infrastructure.”<br /> <br />Slamming the penguin project, Siva added, “BMC spent around Rs 20 crore to bring the penguins here, but they don’t even have a treatment facility for them. Penguins required isolated emergency care.”<br /> <br />Just a few months to go for the BMC elections, the death has expectedly taken on political overtones. Pravin Chheda, Congress’s group leader in the BMC, said “I don’t understand why BMC was in such a hurry to bring penguins to the zoo. There is no expert, no proper infrastructure, no facilities for exotic animals. The chillers, which maintain the air and water temperature in the quarantine, was brought to the facility in September, two months after the penguins landed in the city.”<br /> <br />Emphasising the importance of having life-saving oxygen machines in any zoo or animal hospital, Retd Lt Col (Dr) J C Khanna, superintendent of Parel Animal Hospital, told Mirror, “Oxygen is the basic life support equipment which has to be there on stand-by for emergency care. In such cases, you cannot run around asking for oxygen machine.”</div>
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MUMBAI: A day after an 18-month-old Humboldt penguin, <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Dory">Dory</a>, died at Mumbai's <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Byculla-zoo">Byculla zoo</a>, the BMC has already gone ahead and written to the procurement agency to seek a replacement for the flightless bird—a move that has animal rights activists up in arms. <br />
<br />Dory, among the youngest in a batch of eight penguins aged between 1 and 3, was so unwell that she had to be put on oxygen for a day before she died on Sunday. Now, there are seven penguins in the quarantine facility created within the zoo premises. Zoo director Dr Sanjay Tripathi said, "We have written to Goa Farming Co Ltd, the procurement agency that was also responsible for the maintenance of the birds for the first three months, to seek a replacement. Now that one has died, we have written to the agency seeking a replacement free of cost." <br />
<br />Meanwhile, officials said they do not want to depend on the contractor alone for keeping a check on the birds' health. <br />
<br />They have, therefore, written to the Bombay Veterinary College in Parel requesting it to send in a team of doctors to inspect the remaining birds. The birds are currently being fed mackerel. Earlier, they were being given smelt, bombay duck and eel. The birds' random food samples are sent for testing. <br />
<br />TOI has also learned that chillers that are critical to cool both air and water in the quarantine facility were brought in September--almost two months after the birds landed in the city zoo. What's worse, these are still to be made operational. While ACs can cool the area where the penguins are housed, water can only be cooled with chillers. Penguins require chilled waters to swim. "While air-conditioners are able to control the temperatures up to 16 degree Celsius, chillers can bring down temperatures further to 12 degree Celsius," said Tripathi. <br />
<br />The penguin that died lost almost 300gm weight during its illness. "As she was young, her immunity was lower. We tried everything possible to help her recover. However, her condition continued to deteriorate and she had to be put on oxygen for the almost a day before she died," said a veterinarian in charge of looking after these penguins. <br />
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<br />Dory's post-mortem report, which was conducted by the department of veterinary pathology at the Bombay Veterinary College in Parel, a copy of which is with TOI, revealed that all the lobes of her lungs were congested and her liver was enlarged. "On the basis of the history provided by the zoo and the post-mortem lesions, it appears that the penguin may have died due to some infection (bacterial) leading to septicemia (blood poisoning). However, detailed investigations are on," the report said. <br />
<br />Work on exhibiting the penguins for public viewing is yet to be completed, with officials saying November 30 was their target.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5850576622424524312.post-17397218695035511882016-10-29T17:10:00.002-05:002016-10-29T17:10:24.530-05:003 Penguin Chicks Hatch At Maryland Zoo (video)<b></b><span class="entry-date">October 26, 2016 </span><br />
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<b>BALTIMORE (WJZ) — </b> The first three African penguin chicks of the breeding season have hatched at the Maryland Zoo.<br />
The first chick hatched on October 20 to parents Portia and Beckham while the second chicks, offspring of Ascot and Dennis, hatched on October 22 and October 25.<br />
Breeding season for the birds at the Penguin Coast exhibit at the zoo begins in mid-September and lasts until the end of February.<br />
Penguin chicks typically hatch 38 to 42 days after the eggs are laid.<br />
The Maryland Zoo has the largest colony of African penguins in North America, with more than 75 birds.<br />
In September, Penguin Coast was awarded Top Honors in the Exhibit Award category from the Association of Zoos & Aquariums (AZA) during the AZA Annual Conference.<br />
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After experiencing feather-loss, a female Adelie penguin at Orlando's SeaWorld has given a handmade wet suit by the park's wardrobe designer. The feather loss is hindering the penguin, known as Wonder Twin, from regulating her own body temperature. "It's going to keep her warm, especially in the water," said SeaWorld aviculturist TD Dray. "Penguins live almost three-quarters of their life in the water. And now with that wet suit she's going to be in there and be able to keep warm."</div>
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<strong>(NASA) – Tracking penguin populations in Antarctica is a critical component of understanding environmental changes in the region.</strong><br />
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Now, thanks to a collaboration between NASA and Stony Brook University, citizen scientists can lend a hand through the use of a new, interactive, and user-friendly website that tracks Antarctic penguin populations and provides information to scientists.<br />
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The tool, known as the Mapping Application for Penguin Populations and Projected Dynamics (MAPPPD) and available at www.penguinmap.com, is the first of its kind to give citizen scientists a lens into the world of scientists working to understand how environmental change, fishing, and tourism may be affecting Antarctica’s iconic birds.<br />
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“The launch of this website has the potential to greatly improve management and collaboration around the Antarctic,” said Heather Lynch, Associate Professor of Ecology and Evolution at Stony Brook University, who led the project. “MAPPPD contains data for approximately 1,300 historical and current surveys in over 700 sites around the Antarctic continent. These data come primarily from published literature, though population estimates based on satellite imagery are also used by researchers and represents a growing component of MAPPPD’s utility.”<br />
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Lynch, along with Mathew Schwaller of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, teamed up with Washington, DC-based NGO Oceanites, Inc., to develop the new website, which will allow scientists and policy makers to make conservation decisions regarding the Antarctic environment.<br />
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Antarctica has always been a challenging place to work, and penguin researchers have struggled to track populations of penguins breeding in Antarctica’s most remote areas. But recent developments in using satellite imagery from NASA and other sources have paved the way for a more complete understanding of where penguins breed and how their populations might be changing.<br />
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While the satellite imagery cannot detect the penguins themselves, it can detect the large guano stains the penguins produce while incubating their nests. Lynch and her team have been able to use the imagery to locate new colonies of penguins that no one knew existed, some of which are among the largest in the world.<br />
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The website also allows anyone to query all publicly available penguin census data. Any user can also access the latest modeled population estimates for Adélie penguins around the Antarctic continent, as well as the probability of presence and breeding for all other avian species on the Antarctic Peninsula.<br />
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Lynch also explained that researchers with data to contribute to MAPPPD have a variety of ways to do so, as do keen-eyed tourists who, in the summer months, actually outnumber scientists in the region and can contribute important information through bird checklists and photographs.<br />
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Additionally, MAPPPD’s utility as a data hub for Antarctic penguin biologists will grow as new datasets are uncovered and can be integrated into population models that both describe past trends and may be used to predict future trends.<br />
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The easy-to-use interface includes a number of informative outputs that are immediately available for environmental impact assessments or scientific reports. The website also contains fact sheets on the four penguin species for which count data are available, links to relevant publications, and information about how users can contribute their own data.<br />
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Dory’s autopsy report revealed that she died of a severe bacterial infection that led to septicaemia (bloodstream infection). The autopsy was conducted by the Bombay Veterinary College, Parel. However, Officials from the Byculla zoo said there are no specific reasons that could be attributed to the infection.<br />
“While the necropsy (autopsy) report establishes the presence of bacterial infection, there is no specific cause for the development of such bacteria. However, it is clear the bacteria had harboured into the penguin’s intestines but it has nothing to do with food poisoning,” said Dr Sanjay Tripathi, zoo director. “The infection could have been triggered due to dysfunctional organs in the bird’s body.”<br />
Though Tripathi added chances of other penguins contracting the infection are negligible, he refused to deny its possibility. “The remaining birds are healthy and they are eating normally,” he said.<br />
The post-mortem identified that the bird’s respiratory and circulatory (heart) system was choked. “The trachea was congested, air sac appeared thickened and cloudy, and all the lobes of lungs were congested with frothy exudates oozing out. The pericardium (membrane enclosing the heart) had a cloudy and a yellowish-whitish layer was formed over the surface. The heart showed presence of haemorrhages and vessels appeared dilated with all chambers empty,” stated the report.<br />
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A female humboldt penguin today died at the city zoo, barely three months after it was procured along with seven others from an aquarium in South Korea. <br /><br /> The penguin, weighing around 3kg, showed symptoms of dullness, inappetance (shunning food), greenish stools and laboured breathing on October 18. The bird was subjected to various medical tests and attended by a veterinary doctor, but could not survive, the zoo officials said.<br />
<br /><br /> Eight penguins, including five females, were procured from Coex Aquarium in Seoul on July 26 and brought to Veermata Jijabai Bhosale Udyan (the zoo). The flightless birds were to be made available for public viewing from mid-November at the municipal corporation-run zoo at Byculla. <br /><br /> These birds have been kept in a quarantine facility at the zoo under 16 to 18 degrees Celsius temperature as per international standards, the officials said in a release. <br /><br /> "The (ill) bird was immediately attended by a veterinary doctor and its stools were examined. A culture sensitivity test was also conducted which found the presence of gram-negative bacteria. Accordingly, appropriate treatment was started in consultation with an exotic birds specialist," the statement stated. <br /><br /> "The bird, however, did not respond to the treatment and on October 19, a blood test was conducted which showed elevated liver values," it added. <br /><br /> The zoo authorities said X-ray and ultrasonography tests were also conducted in which no specific observations were noticed in the penguin. <br /><br /> "The bird did not respond to treatment and died today at 8.17 am. A post-mortem was conducted by <a class="storyTags" href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Mumbai" target="_blank">Mumbai </a>Veterinary College in Parel," it stated. <br /><br /> The exact cause of death will be known after the post- mortem report comes in. <br /><br /> Meanwhile, the seven other Humboldt penguins are healthy and under observation, the officials said.<br />
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