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Climate change splits two penguin species into winners and losers

As the world warms, an adaptable Antarctic bird thrives while the fortunes of a specialist relative fall.
Gentoo and Chinstrap penguins in waters around the Antarctic Peninsula.

Chinstrap penguins (with black stripe under the chin) and gentoo penguins in waters near the Antarctic Peninsula. In recent decades, gentoos have flourished but chinstraps have floundered. Credit: Rachael Herman/Stony Brook University

Populations of a picky species of Antarctic penguin have plummeted as a less-fussy species has prospered, showing that even closely related species respond differently to the effects of climate change.

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Nature 576, 184 (2019)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-03724-9

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