• Zron@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    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.

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      8 months ago

      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.