{"id":86752,"date":"2019-04-26T11:07:21","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T05:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=4398"},"modified":"2019-04-26T11:07:21","modified_gmt":"2019-04-26T05:37:21","slug":"antarctic-penguins-suffer-huge-breeding-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/antarctic-penguins-suffer-huge-breeding-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"Antarctic penguins suffer huge breeding failure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Antarctica\u2019s second-largest colony of emperor\npenguins- the Halley Bay- has suffered a \u201ccatastrophic\u201d breeding failure. This\nis because nearly all chicks born over three years died as their icy Antarctic\nhabitat shrunk.<\/li><li>Halley bay in Weddell Sea is the second largest\nemperor penguin colony in Antarctica, after Coulman Island in the Ross Sea.\nUntil recently, it supported 9% of the bird\u2019s population in the world.<\/li><li>The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) used\nsatellite imagery to study the behaviour of the Halley Bay colony and had found\nthat in 2016, abnormally warm and stormy weather broke up the sea-ice on which\nthe penguins normally raise their young. This had killed all the chicks. In\n2017 and 2018, too, the sea ice broke up early, leading to the likely death of\nall chicks.<\/li><li>The breeding failure of the penguin is a matter\nof serious concern. According to scientists, penguin population will decline\ndue to future warming of the Antarctic and reduced sea ice as a consequence of\nclimate change. <\/li><li>The Emperor Penguin is the largest of all living\npenguin species. It is the only one that breeds during the Antarctic winter. It\nis also the only known bird to never breed on dry land, preferring to raise\nchicks on frozen sea instead. It is listed as Near Threatened in the IUCN Red\nList.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antarctica\u2019s second-largest colony of emperor penguins- the Halley Bay- has suffered a \u201ccatastrophic\u201d breeding failure. This is because nearly all chicks born over three years died as their icy Antarctic habitat shrunk. Halley bay in Weddell Sea is the second largest emperor penguin colony in Antarctica, after Coulman Island in the Ross Sea. Until recently,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/antarctic-penguins-suffer-huge-breeding-failure\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Antarctic penguins suffer huge breeding failure<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4182],"tags":[408,4355],"class_list":["post-86752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-climate-change","tag-emperor-penguins","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704875446},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}