1. Studying variability of parental foraging and provisioning behaviour in relation to reproductive success is fundamental to improving understanding of regulation of reproductive effort in animals.

Adélie penguins seem to have passed a portion of the mirror test, in which animals that see their reflection in a mirror appear to recognise that they are seeing themselves and not another individual.

Adélie penguins in Lützow-Holm Bay, Antarctica, enjoy easy access to food and increase body weight and breeding success in ice-free summer. (Yuuki Watanabe / National Institute of Polar Research, ...

The best way to find out what an Adélie penguin is eating is to catch it and make it regurgitate its meal. This is about as pleasant for bird and researcher as you might think. It’s also invasive, ...

A species of penguin may have just seen itself into an exclusive club of creatures that recognize themselves in the mirror. An Indian research team put a dozen Adélie penguins in East Antarctica ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. A group of scientists studying Adélie penguins and climate change have found that the ...

One of the biggest penguin colonies in the world was hiding in poop sight. Thanks to a whole lot of guano showing up in pictures from space, researchers have discovered an unknown group of 1.5 million ...

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It’s the real-life version of “Homeward Bound,” but instead of dogs and cats, this story involves a young penguin that somehow ended up 1,800 miles from home. Pingu, an Adélie penguin, was recently ...

One wrong turn sent this Adélie penguin on a nearly 2,000-mile voyage, according to reports. The penguin was spotted on New Zealand's Canterbury beach on Thursday, Nov. 10, by Harry Singh, USA Today ...