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Chicks, Shags, and Merry Olde England January 10, 2004

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Travel story: Chicks, Shags, and Merry Olde England January 10, 2004

Across a tiny inlet from Port Lockroy is Jougla Point, which had 726 breeding pairs of Gentoo penguins this season. Researchers have been studying the effects of human visitors on these birds for years now. They have a control group of penguins in a roped-off area of the island. Comparing the visited and unvisited penguins, they've found no difference and no negative effects on breeding.



The Gentoo chicks had begun to hatch a few days earlier. Teeny, gray, beanbag... More

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