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Liam Gilliver

African penguins starved ‘en masse’ due to food shortages driven by climate shifts and overfishing

Penguins living off the coast of South Africa have likely “starved to death en masse” amid collapsing food supplies.

A new study from the South African Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment and the University of Exeter found that between 2004 and 2011 around 62,000 African penguins died as a result of severe food shortages.

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