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PENGUIN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Short-legged flightless birds of cold southern especially Antarctic regions having webbed feet and wings modified as flippers
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("penguin" is a kind of...):
sphenisciform seabird (flightless cold-water seabirds: penguins)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "penguin"):
Adelie; Adelie penguin; Pygoscelis adeliae (medium-sized penguins occurring in large colonies on the Adelie Coast of Antarctica)
Aptenodytes patagonica; king penguin (large penguin on islands bordering the Antarctic Circle)
Aptenodytes forsteri; emperor penguin (the largest penguin; an Antarctic penguin)
jackass penguin; Spheniscus demersus (small penguin of South America and southern Africa with a braying call)
crested penguin; rock hopper (small penguin of the Falkland Islands and New Zealand)
Holonyms ("penguin" is a member of...):
family Spheniscidae; Spheniscidae (comprising all existing penguins)
Context examples:
The fate of the penguins is largely tied to the fate of sea ice, which the animals use as a home base for breeding, feeding and molting.
(Unless warming is slowed, emperor penguins will march toward extinction, National Science Foundation)
The event temporarily pushed the fish and squid on which king penguins depend beyond their foraging range.
(Study: World's Largest King Penguin Colony Declines Sharply, VOA)
Seals, whales and penguins all feast on shrimplike crustaceans called Antarctic krill.
(Whaling and climate change lead to 100 years of feast or famine for Antarctic penguins, National Science Foundation)
If global climate keeps warming at the current rate, we expect emperor penguins in Antarctica to experience an 86% decline by the year 2100, says Stephanie Jenouvrier, a seabird ecologist at WHOI and lead author of the paper.
(Unless warming is slowed, emperor penguins will march toward extinction, National Science Foundation)
It is completely unexpected, and particularly significant since this colony represented nearly one third of the king penguins in the world, said lead author Henri Weimerskirch, an ecologist at the Center for Biological Studies in Chize, France, who first saw the colony in 1982.
(Study: World's Largest King Penguin Colony Declines Sharply, VOA)
As the availability of krill has decreased, gentoo penguins have diversified their diets to include fish and squid along with krill.
(Whaling and climate change lead to 100 years of feast or famine for Antarctic penguins, National Science Foundation)
Emperor penguins tend to build their colonies on ice with extremely specific conditions — it must be locked into the shoreline of the Antarctic continent, but close enough to open seawater to give the birds access to food for themselves and their young.
(Unless warming is slowed, emperor penguins will march toward extinction, National Science Foundation)
New research reveals how two penguin species, the gentoo and the chinstrap, have dealt with more than a century of human impacts in Antarctica, and why some species are winners and others are losers in this rapidly changing ecosystem.
(Whaling and climate change lead to 100 years of feast or famine for Antarctic penguins, National Science Foundation)
Emperor penguins are some of the most striking and charismatic animals on Earth, but a study by scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution has found that a warming climate may render the penguins extinct by the end of this century.
(Unless warming is slowed, emperor penguins will march toward extinction, National Science Foundation)
This research highlights the value of long-term studies for understanding the impact of environmental change on long-lived marine predators such as penguins, said Jennifer Burns, a program director in NSF's Office of Polar Programs.
(Whaling and climate change lead to 100 years of feast or famine for Antarctic penguins, National Science Foundation)
