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62,000 Penguins Starved to Death Off South Africa's Coast Last Decade. Here's Why.


A brutal confluence of environmental change and human fishing habits left tens of thousands of adult African penguins off South Africa's coast without enough food to survive, reducing their population by around 95 percent in just eight years, a new study reveals.

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