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2 little blue penguins at a nest in Timaru, New Zealand. Sanka Vidanagama/NurPhoto through Getty Images Relationships can be unpredictable. In some cases they simply do not exercise, even in penguins that can mate with the very same partner for numerous years. The little penguins (Eudyptula smallthat survive on Phillip Island in Australia have actually been discovered to "divorce" their partners and discover a brand-new mate if they do not seem pleased with the variety of offspring they have actually produced. This is a dangerous choice that can decrease the success in their next breeding efforts. The findings are detailed in a research study released January 11 in the journal Ecology and Evolution ...

When Ruthmery Pillco Huarcaya booted her computer system and linked it to a just recently recovered collar from an Andean bear, she had no concept what sort of video she may be ready to see."We had more than a thousand videos, so I simply picked random videos to play," states Pillco, a wildlife ecologist at the Peruvian not-for-profit Amazon Conservation and a National Geographic Explorer. "At initially, it was simply fantastic to understand the cam worked."In videos shot throughout 4 months, a male bear nicknamed Chris took Pillco and her coworkers on a romp throughout a spectacular set of recently taped habits.She shouted with delight as the tape exposed the collared bear, who had to do with 7 to 8 years of ages, swimming throughout a river, then enjoyed strangely enough as the animal de...

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When penguins divorce, the entire nest is affected

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