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The Adélie penguin is a mid-sized bird, measuring 70–73 cm (28–29 in) in length and weighing 3.8 to 8.2 kg (8.4 to 18.1 lb). [ 13][ 14] Although the sexes look the same, females have shorter wings and beaks and weigh significantly less. [ 14] The adult is black on the head, throat and upper parts, with snowy white underparts.
Cape Adare is the site of the largest Adélie penguin rookery in the world. The only study of this particular colony was done by George Murray Levick , [9] who was a member of the 1910–13 Scott Antarctic Expedition and observed it for an entire breeding cycle in 1911 and 1912. [10]
Ice. [ 2] The Dumont d'Urville Station ( French: Base antarctique Dumont-d'Urville) is a French scientific station in Antarctica on Île des Pétrels, archipelago of Pointe-Géologie in Adélie Land. It is named after explorer Jules Dumont d'Urville, whose expedition landed on Débarquement Rock in the Dumoulin Islands at the northeast end of ...
12. Albino Corn Snake. This breed of snake’s coloring is the result of a genetic mutation. Instead of being green, they are white, orange or yellow shades. 13. Afghan Hound. These dogs have been ...
Crèche (zoology) In zoology, a crèche (from a French term for childcare) is an animal behaviour where offspring are cared for as a group by multiple females. [1] [2] Many species such as common eiders, [1] lions, [2] and penguins [3] form crèches and exhibit group behaviours. Crèches can serve different functions and purposes depending on ...
This is a list of Sphenisciformes species by global population. While numbers are estimates, they have been made by the experts in their fields. Sphenisciformes (from the Latin for "wedge-shaped") is the taxonomic order to which the penguins belong. BirdLife International has assessed 18 species. 16 (89% of total species) have had their ...
Jules Sébastien César Dumont d'Urville ( French pronunciation: [ʒyl dymɔ̃ dyʁvil]; 23 May 1790 – 8 May 1842) was a French explorer and naval officer who explored the south and western Pacific, Australia, New Zealand, and Antarctica. As a botanist and cartographer, he gave his name to several seaweeds, plants and shrubs, and places such ...
Population. Uninhabited. Yalour Islands, also known as the Jalour Islands, is a group of islands and rocks 2.8 kilometres (1.5 nmi) in extent in the south part of the Wilhelm Archipelago. The group lies 1.9 kilometres (1 nmi) northwest of Cape Tuxen, Graham Land. Discovered and named by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1903–05, under J.B ...