Hello everyone and welcome to  M NEWS and this is Science cat here my assistant Scientific Meap(cough Amisha)Scientific Meap: UUUUGGGG why did you make come here it took so much effort and oooowww now my mouth hurts from talking. Too bad! GET OVER IT! Now here is the news story for today. Cold climate is ..... Scientific Meap: CAN I GO HOME NOW! No now shush. As i was saying cold climate is is killing penguin chicks in Argentina.

 

From 1983 to 2003 researchers based at the university of Washington in Seattle monitored a colony of 400,000 Magellanic penguins living halfway up the coast of Argentina on a peninsula  called Punta Tombo. Each year the researchers  visited penguin nests once or twice a day  from mid September to late February to asses the overall status of the colony and the health of the chicks once they hatched in late November or early December.

The resulting data set provides one of the largest ever records of a signal penguin colony. It revealed that starvation and predication were the most common and constant chick killers over the years, but hypothermia was the leading cause of death during years with many rainstorms, which became more prevalent through the study period .

    

Young chicks about 9-23 days old were particularly vulnerable to hypothermia as they were to young to have fully grown their waterproof plumage but already to big to seek shelter under their parents bodies the team reported on weds. Jan. 29th . They have to have water proof feather to survive, if they don't they  will die as soon as they hit the water.

 

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