Today I read an article about how climate change affects the population of female penguins because they are exposed to stress and reproduction problems.
Changes in climate are affecting the female population of the Magellanic penguins, which is one of the biggest penguin colonies. Its not only the climate but from lack of food which is stolen from them. Most of them are exposed to rain in heavy loads which causes them to get hypothermia and die. "It's the first long-term study to show climate change having a major impact on chick survival and reproductive success," said Boersma, who has been in field work since 1983 at the world's largest breeding area for Magellanic penguins, where 200,000 pairs of penguins live. Weather in these colonies has killed 7% of the females per year or there were some years in which 43% of the females died. "Starvation and weather will likely interact increasingly as climate changes", Boersma said. Starving females are more likely to die in a big storm because they are weak and not able to defend themselves against nature.
This article made me realize that global warming is indeed global. There are many other species suffering from global warming than just humans. This article is kind of a wake up call to take care of our environment more. I think that what this article's author is implicating for the future is that we should take care of our environment and not be selfish and leave fish for the starving penguins and just learn to control ourselves.
MLA: University of Washington. "Deaths attributed directly to climate change cast pall over penguins." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 29 January 2014. <www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/01/140129184826.htm>.
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