Penguin in 2000: MV Treasure spill
[233] [desk-penguin-1] Tagged emperors have exceeded 500 m and stayed down more than 20 minutes. That is a seal-like performance on a A specimen label at a natural history museum records where and when, not which animal is more valuable. For Penguin, write 2000, “MV Treasure spill,” and 18, and leave league tables off the card. The how-it-works diagrams reduce that budget to a six-node loop.
Tagged emperors have exceeded 500 m and stayed down more than 20 minutes. That is a seal-like performance on a bird lung. Why did March of the Penguins matter? Luc Jacquet’s 2005 film made Aptenodytes forsteri a global winter story. Scientists later argued the narration over-moralised a physiological commute.
What did the 2000 Treasure oil spill show? About 19,000 African penguins were oiled near Cape Town. SANCCOB and volunteers ran one of the largest bird-rehab operations recorded. The tight thermoregulatory huddle is an emperor (and some king) story. Burrowing little penguins and tree-nesting gentoos use different heat tricks.
Yes on a decadal clock. Purse-seine competition and shifting sardine/anchovy biomass cut South African colonies by large fractions since the 1950s peak. Salt glands above the eye dump NaCl as a concentrated drip from the bill — the same avian gadget albatrosses use. Why are crested penguins in trouble?
The order on the card is year, line, figure. Penguin is not sorted by how much visitors like the photo.2000
Figures to keep
- Year of the note
- 2000
- Figure to keep
- 18
- Species
- Penguin
- Line in the log
- MV Treasure spill