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Fishing boats spotted competing with whales in Antarctica for krill
By Bobby Bascomb Nearly all of Antarctica’s iconic wildlife, from penguins to seals and whales, depend on krill, tiny ...
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Antarctic krill: Key food source moves south
A keystone prey species in the Southern Ocean is retreating towards the Antarctic because ... penguins and fur seals may be finding it harder to get enough of the krill to support their populations.
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Antarctica penguin species suffering from declining krill availability, says NOAA
A number of penguin species found in western Antarctica ... trends in krill biomass explains why populations of Adelie and chinstrap penguins increased after competitors (fur seals, baleen whales ...
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Fur Seals
Although they breathe air, seals are most at home in the water and may stay at sea for weeks at a time eating fish, squid, birds, and tiny shrimp-like krill. Fur seals may swim by themselves or ...
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Krill retreating towards Antarctica because of climate change
A keystone prey species in the Southern Ocean is retreating towards the Antarctic because ... penguins and fur seals may be finding it harder to get enough of the krill to support their populations.
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No evidence of microplastics in Antarctic fur seal scats from a hotspot of human activity in Western Antarctica.
Hard remains recovered from the scats revealed that male Antarctic fur seals foraged on krill and myctophid fishes during late summer. Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) revealed that ...