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: a small antarctic penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae)
called also Adélie
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The day a group of us sat down in the snow and watched as hundreds of Adelie penguins waddled from one end of the snowy beach to another.
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Aislyn Greene, AFAR Media, 8 Jan. 2025
David Attenborough narrates this visual journey through the Arctic and the Antarctic with intimate looks at exotic species, including Adelie penguins, Arctic wolves, albatrosses, and polar bears.
—Chris Snellgrove, EW.com, 23 Jan. 2024
Levick was horrified to witness not just male penguins mating with other males but one young male Adelie penguin attempting to copulate with a dead female.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 5 June 2023
Colonies of Adelie penguins on islands near the U.S. Palmer Station on the central WAP declined by 90% since the mid-1970′s.
—Dr. James McClintock, al, 26 Jan. 2023
For the past 11 years, scientist and educator Jean Pennycook has invited members of the k-12 community to join her in the project, funded by the National Science Foundation, about Adelie penguins at the Cape Royds Adelie penguin colony in Antarctica.
—Alycia Crall, Discover Magazine, 27 Jan. 2017
One of the three brushtail penguin species that lives on the Western Antarctic Peninsula (WAP) that will surely suffer is the sea-ice dependent Adelie penguin.
—Dr. James McClintock, al, 26 Jan. 2023
Almost the entire cohort of chicks from an Adelie penguin colony in the eastern Antarctic was wiped out by starvation in 2017.
—Katrina Lau, NBC News, 12 Nov. 2021
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Aislyn Greene, AFAR Media, 8 Jan. 2025
David Attenborough narrates this visual journey through the Arctic and the Antarctic with intimate looks at exotic species, including Adelie penguins, Arctic wolves, albatrosses, and polar bears.
—Chris Snellgrove, EW.com, 23 Jan. 2024
Levick was horrified to witness not just male penguins mating with other males but one young male Adelie penguin attempting to copulate with a dead female.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 5 June 2023
Colonies of Adelie penguins on islands near the U.S. Palmer Station on the central WAP declined by 90% since the mid-1970′s.
—Dr. James McClintock, al, 26 Jan. 2023
For the past 11 years, scientist and educator Jean Pennycook has invited members of the k-12 community to join her in the project, funded by the National Science Foundation, about Adelie penguins at the Cape Royds Adelie penguin colony in Antarctica.
—Alycia Crall, Discover Magazine, 27 Jan. 2017
One of the three brushtail penguin species that lives on the Western Antarctic Peninsula (WAP) that will surely suffer is the sea-ice dependent Adelie penguin.
—Dr. James McClintock, al, 26 Jan. 2023
Almost the entire cohort of chicks from an Adelie penguin colony in the eastern Antarctic was wiped out by starvation in 2017.
—Katrina Lau, NBC News, 12 Nov. 2021
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“Adélie penguin.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Ad%C3%A9lie%20penguin. Accessed 31 Mar. 2025.
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