Scientists track young penguins via satellite after they leave home

Only about half of the king penguin chicks born in the wild survive to their first birthday, and the ones that don’t make it are most vulnerable in the weeks after they set off on their own. Why are some birds able to survive when so many others aren’t? To find out, scientists enlisted the...



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