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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Graeme Green

Antarctic penguins have radically shifted their breeding season – seemingly in response to climate change

Penguins on rocks.
Gentoo penguins, pictured at Neko Harbour in the Antarctic, have brought forward their breeding season most significantly. Photograph: Ignacio Juarez Martinez

Penguins in Antarctica have radically shifted their breeding season, apparently as a response to climate change, research has found.

Dramatic shifts in behaviour were revealed by a decade-long study led by Penguin Watch at the University of Oxford and Oxford Brookes University, with some penguins’ breeding period moving forward by more than three weeks.

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