There are other colonies of these penguins, although their numbers have been declining all over Australia and New Zealand for a while now. In some areas they’ve dropped 70%, in others the colonies have been completely lost.
So it’s good that they have one safe space to breed at least.
It’s a small enough number you think they could have just said exactly how many there were.
Fewer than 10 … So, 9? 8, perhaps? Surely not 7!
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/17/a-penguins-best-friend-guard-dogs-needed-to-save-middle-island-colony-from-foxes
4 apparently.
My god, that’s fewer than 5.
Also that’s getting really close to “Adam & Eve” level inbreeding. Those penguins have a family wreath, I wonder if they can develop a Hapsburg beak.
There are other colonies of these penguins, although their numbers have been declining all over Australia and New Zealand for a while now. In some areas they’ve dropped 70%, in others the colonies have been completely lost.
So it’s good that they have one safe space to breed at least.