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Africa: Can African Penguins Be Brought Back From the Brink? Better Designed No-Fishing Zones Could Help: [The Conversation Africa] South Africa is home to 88% of the world's colonies of African penguins (Spheniscus demersus). The species is classified as Critically Endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. This means there is a high risk the birds could go… http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TR7Cdx #AfricanPenguins #Conservation #EndangeredSpecies #WildlifeProtection #NoFishingZones

ThePiper Dec 20

African or Jackass Penguin dozing in the shade
African Penguins are in the "Threatened" category.
This one belongs to the big colony in Simon's Town where they are protected by law.
The entire area of the colony has been declared a national park and is run by South Afican National Parks.

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earthling Mar 21, 2025

African penguins exchange a glance at their colony on Robben Island, near Cape Town, South Africa. Efforts to stop the critically endangered African penguin from going extinct took a step forward after South African conservationists and fishing industry groups reached a legal settlement on no-fishing zones around six of the penguins’ major breeding colonies.

Photograph: Awie Badenhorst/Alamy

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Headlines Africa Jan 28, 2025

Africa: Nineteen African Penguins in Rehab After Oil Spill Off Cape Town: [Daily Maverick] The source of an oil pollution incident which left 19 underweight African penguins oiled between Hout Bay and Kommetjie last week remains a mystery. http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/THcxZ7 #AfricanPenguins #OilSpill #CapeTown #WildlifeConservation #OceanHealth

TerpieCat Oct 10, 2024

Adorable African penguins. #Penguins #AfricanPenguins #NaturePhotography

Ferdi Magellan Aug 25, 2024

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“African penguins face the threat of extinction by 2035 if their population continues falling at the current rate of 7.9% a year. A century ago, there were up to 1 million breeding pairs. Now there are fewer than 10,000.”

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Lukas VFN 🇪🇺Nov 24, 2023

Black dots on white fronts of African #penguins may help them tell one another apart https://phys.org/news/2023-11-black-dots-white-fronts-african.html

#AfricanPenguins utilize their ventral dot patterns for individual recognition https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003347223002579

"workers at a marine park in Italy are able to keep track of which penguin is which by memorizing the arrangement of black dots on their fronts. Intrigued, the researchers wondered if that is how the penguins do it too."

Black dots on white fronts of African penguins may help them tell one another apart

A team of psychologists and animal behaviorists from the University of Turin, the University of Oulu, and Zoomarine Italia, Torvaianica-Pomezia, has found evidence indicating that the unique assortment of black dots that decorate the mostly all-white fronts of African penguins may serve as a means for allowing the penguins to tell one another apart.

Phys.org

Phys.org Apr 20, 2023

Referenced link: https://phys.org/news/2023-04-african-penguins-climate-refugees-distant.html
Discuss on https://discu.eu/q/https://phys.org/news/2023-04-african-penguins-climate-refugees-distant.html

Originally posted by Phys.org / @physorg_com: http://nitter.platypush.tech/physorg_com/status/1648899299357409280#m

#Africanpenguins: Climate refugees from a distant past? https://phys.org/news/2023-04-african-penguins-climate-refugees-distant.html

African penguins: Climate refugees from a distant past?

Imagine the view from the western coastline of southern Africa during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) over 20,000 years ago: In the distance you would see at least 15 large islands—the largest 300 square kilometers in area—swarming with hundreds of millions of marine birds and penguin colonies.

Phys.org