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TheAdélie penguin(Pygoscelis adeliae) is a species ofpenguincommon along the entire coast of theAntarcticcontinent, which is the only place where it is found. It is the most widespread penguin species, and, along with theemperor penguin,is the most southerly distributed of all penguins. It is named afterAdélie Land,in turn, named forAdèle Dumont d'Urville,who was married to French explorerJules Dumont d'Urville,who first discovered this penguin in 1840. Adélie penguins obtain their food by bothpredationandforaging,with a diet of mainlykrillandfish.

Adélie penguin
Temporal range:Pleistoceneto recent[1]
Hope Bay-2016-Trinity Peninsula–Adélie penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae) 04.jpg
Hope Bay,Antarctica
Scientific classificationEdit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Sphenisciformes
Family: Spheniscidae
Genus: Pygoscelis
Species:
P. adeliae
Binomial name
Pygoscelis adeliae
Distribution of the Adélie penguin
Nesting sites in red
Synonyms[3]
  • Catarrhactes adeliæ
  • Eudyptes adeliae
  • Pygoscelis brevirostris

Taxonomy and systematics

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The first Adélie penguin specimens were collected by crew members of French explorerJules Dumont d'Urvilleon his expedition to Antarctica in the late 1830s and early 1840s.Jacques Bernard HombronandHonoré Jacquinot,two French surgeons who doubled as naturalists on the journey, described the bird for science in 1841, giving it thescientific nameCatarrhactes adeliæ.[4]They usedspecimenscollected from an area of the continent which had been named "terre Adélie", French forAdélie Land,[4]itself named for Dumont d'Urville's wife,Adèle.[5]The bird was later placed in several other genera, includingEudyptes,Pygoscelisand the now-defunct genusDasyrhamphus,and was also later inadvertently redescribed asPygoscelis brevirostris.[3][6]

The Adélie penguin is one of three species now assigned to thegenusPygoscelis.DNAevidence suggests thePygoscelislineage diverged from that of other penguin species some 38 million years ago, roughly 2 million years after the ancestors of the genusAptenodytesdiverged. Adélie penguinsevolvedabout 19 million years ago, branching from the ancestor of the other two members of the genus (chinstrapandgentoo penguins), both of which evolved some 5 million years later.[7]Although it has no identifiable subspecies,[8]the Adélie penguin has two distinct genetic lineages: one found primarily in theRoss Sea,and the other widespread throughout the Antarctic.[9]

The genus namePygoscelisis a compound word, composed of theAncient Greekwordspugē,meaning "rump", andskelos,meaning "leg".[10]The members of this genus are often called "brush-tailed penguins", a reference to their long, stiff tail feathers.[11]The birds regularly use their tails for support, and the stiff feathers sweep the ground as the penguins walk.[12]Thespecific nameadeliaeindicates the location from which thetype specimenwas collected.[5]

Description

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The Adélie penguin is a mid-sized bird, measuring 70–73 cm (28–29 in) in length and weighing 3.8 to 8.2 kg (8.4 to 18.1 lb).[13][14]Although the sexes look the same, females have shorter wings and beaks and weigh significantly less.[14]The adult is black on the head, throat and upper parts, with snowy white underparts. It has a conspicuous whiteeye ringaround a blackiris.Thebeakis largely covered with black feathers, leaving only the tip exposed; this is primarily black, though it can show indistinct reddish-brown markings. The upper surface of the wing is black with a white trailing edge, while the underside is white with a narrow black leading edge and a small black tip. The legs and feet, which are mostly unfeathered, are pinkish.[15]

Upon hatching, the chick is fully covered indown feathers.[13]This coat of feathers is typically silvery-grey (darker on the head), though some birds are much darker overall.[13][16]Within 10 days, the chick moults into another set of down feathers, this time all dark smoky-grey.[16]Once they have moulted a third time, 7–9 weeks after hatching, the immature birds are similar to adults in appearance, though they tend to be smaller with a bluer tinge to their upperparts and white (rather than black) chins and throats.[15][17]They lack the full white eye ring of the adult until they are at least a year old.[15]

Similar species

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The adult Adélie penguin is unlikely to be confused with any other species, but the white-throated immature bird can resemble thechinstrap penguin.However, the black on its face extends below its eyes, and it lacks a black line under the throat (the "chinstrap" ) that the chinstrap penguin has.[18]In addition, the bill of the chinstrap penguin is longer, and lacks the feathering that covers most of the bill of the Adélie penguin.[14]

Distribution and habitat

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The Adélie penguin is a truly Antarctic creature – one of only four penguin species to nest on the continent itself.[19]Breeding colonies are scattered along Antarctica's coasts and on a number of sub-Antarctic islands, including those in theSouth Orkneys,theSouth Shetlands,theSouth Sandwich Islands,theBalleny Islands,Scott IslandandSouth Georgia.[14]The penguins are much less common north of the60th parallel southbut have occurred as vagrants in Australia, New Zealand and southern South America.[14]During the breeding season, they need bare, rocky ground on which to build their nests. They will not nest on ice, and preferentially choose areas where wind or the angle of the sun (or both) helps to keep snow drifts from accumulating.[20]At the start of the breeding seasons, colony sites may be up to 100 km (62 mi) from open water, though the distance decreases as summer progresses and the pack ice breaks up.[20]

Once they have finished breeding, adult Adélie penguins typically move to ice floes or ice shelves to moult,[21]though some remain onshore.[22]During the winter, the birds remain in the pack ice zone, with most moving north to reach areas where there is visible light for at least part of the day – thus north of roughly 73°S. While some remain near their breeding colonies, others may move hundreds or thousands of kilometres away. As long as there are breaks in the pack ice, they can survive hundreds of kilometres south of open water, and birds are known to forage in winter in areas with up to 80% pack ice cover.[23]

Behaviour and ecology

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Cape Adare
In Antarctica

Apsley Cherry-Garrard,a survivor ofRobert Falcon Scott's ill-fatedBritish Antarctic Expedition of 1910,documented details of penguin behaviour in his bookThe Worst Journey in the World."They are extraordinarily like children, these little people of the Antarctic world, either like children or like old men, full of their own importance..."[24]George Murray Levick,a Royal Navy surgeon-lieutenant and scientist who also accompanied Scott, commented on displays of selfishness among the penguins during his surveying in the Antarctic: "At the place where they most often went in [the water], a long terrace of ice about six feet in height ran for some hundreds of yards along the edge of the water, and here, just as on the sea-ice, crowds would stand near the brink. When they had succeeded in pushing one of their number over, all would crane their necks over the edge, and when they saw the pioneer safe in the water, the rest followed." Levick also detailed the mating habits of Adélie penguins.[25]

One writer observed how the penguin's curiosity could also endanger them, which Scott found a particular nuisance:

The great trouble with [the dog teams] has been due to the fatuous conduct of the penguins. Groups of these have been constantly leaping onto our [ice] floe. From the moment of landing on their feet their whole attitude expressed devouring curiosity and a pig-headed disregard for their own safety. They waddle forward, poking their heads to and fro in their usually absurd way, in spite of a string of howling dogs straining to get at them. "Hulloa!" they seem to say, "here's a game – what do all you ridiculous things want?" And they come a few steps nearer. The dogs make a rush as far as their harness or leashes allow. The penguins are not daunted in the least, but their ruffs go up and they squawk with semblance of anger.… Then the final fatal steps forward are taken and they come within reach. There is a spring, a squawk, a horrid red patch on the snow, and the incident is closed.[26]

Chicks in Antarctica, withMSExplorer

Others on the mission to the South Pole were more receptive to this element of the Adélies' curiosity. Cherry-Garrard writes:

Meares and Dimitri exercised the dog-teams out upon the larger floes when we were held up for any length of time. One day, a team was tethered by the side of the ship, and a penguin sighted them and hurried from afar off. The dogs became frantic with excitement as he neared them: he supposed it was a greeting, and the louder they barked and the more they strained at their ropes, the faster he bustled to meet them. He was extremely angry with a man who went and saved him from a very sudden end, clinging to his trousers with his beak, and furiously beating his shins with his flippers. It was not an uncommon sight to see a little Adélie penguin standing within a few inches of the nose of a dog which was almost frantic with desire and passion.[27]

Cherry-Garrard held the birds in great regard. "Whatever a penguin does has individuality, and he lays bare his whole life for all to see. He cannot fly away. And because he is quaint in all that he does, but still more because he is fighting against bigger odds than any other bird, and fighting always with the most gallant pluck, he comes to be considered as something apart from the ordinary bird..."[28]

Despite their size, Adélie penguins are known for their bold and boisterous personality and will challenge other animals, including predators far larger than them.[29]In footage shot for the 2018BBC EarthdocumentarySpy in the Snow,the boisterous behaviour of Adélie penguins was made especially apparent when an individual arrived to defend a group of emperor penguin chicks that were being menaced by aSouthern giant petrel(Macronectes giganteus). Despite the species difference between the Adélie and the emperors, the individual charged the petrel, then placed itself between the predator and the chicks until it retreated.[30]

Adélie penguins usually swim at around 5 miles per hour (8.0 km/h).[31]They are able to leap some 3 metres (10 ft) out of the water to land on rocks or ice.[32]

Food and feeding

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The Adélie penguin is known to feed mainly onAntarctic krill,ice krill,Antarctic silverfish,lanternfish(specifically, theAntarctic lanternfish),amphipods(Themisto gaudichaudii,Cyllopus lucassi,Hyperiaand unidentifiedgammariids),[33][34]seakrill,glacial squidand othercephalopods[35](diet varies depending on geographic location) during the chick-rearing season. Thestable isotoperecord of fossileggshellaccumulated in colonies over the last 38,000 years reveals a sudden change from a fish-based diet to krill that began around 200 years ago. This is most likely due to the decline of theAntarctic fur sealsince the late 18th century andbaleen whalesduring the early 20th century. The reduction of competition from these predators has resulted in a surplus of krill, which the penguins now exploit as an easier source of food.[36]

Jellyfish including species in the generaChrysaoraandCyaneawere found to be actively sought-out food items, while they previously had been thought to be only accidentally ingested. Similar preferences were found in thelittle penguin,yellow-eyed penguinandMagellanic penguin.[37]

Breeding

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An egg in theMuséum de Toulouse
Mating inAntarctica
Stuffed chick atAuckland Museum

Adélie penguins breed from October to February on shores around the Antarctic continent. Adélies build rough nests of stones. Twoeggsare laid; these areincubatedfor 32 to 34 days by the parents taking turns (shifts typically last for 12 days). The chicks remain in the nest for 22 days before joiningcrèches.The chicksmoultinto their juvenileplumageand go out to sea after 50 to 60 days.[38]

Adélie penguins arrive at their breeding grounds in late October or November, after completing a migration that takes them away from the Antarctic continent for the dark, cold winter months. Their nests consist of stones piled together. In December, the warmest month in Antarctica (about −2 °C or 28 °F/-19 °C or -2.2 °F), the parents take turns incubating the egg; one goes to feed and the other stays to warm the egg. The parent that is incubating does not eat and does not even leave to defecate but instead projects faeces away from the nest.[39]In March, the adults and their young return to the sea. The Adélie penguin lives on sea ice but needs ice-free land to breed. With a reduction in sea ice, populations of the Adélie penguin have dropped by 65% over the past 25 years in the Antarctic Peninsula.[40]

Young Adélie penguins that have no experience in social interaction may react to false cues when the penguins gather to breed. They may, for instance, attempt to mate with other males, with young chicks or with dead females. Levick was the first to record such behaviour (1911–12), but his notes were deemed too indecent for publication at the time; they were rediscovered and published in 2012.[41][n 1]"The pamphlet, declined for publication with the official Scott expedition reports, commented on the frequency of sexual activity, auto-erotic behaviour and seemingly aberrant behaviour of young unpaired males and females, includingnecrophilia,sexual coercion, sexual and physical abuse of chicks and homosexual behaviour, "states the analysis written by Douglas Russell and colleagues William Sladen and David Ainley." His observations were, however, accurate, valid and, with the benefit of hindsight, deserving of publication. "[42][43]Levick observed the Adélie penguins atCape Adare,the site of the largest Adélie penguinrookeryin the world.[44]As of June 2012,he has been the only one to study this particular colony and he observed it for an entirebreeding cycle.[43]The discovery significantly illuminates the behaviour of the species whose population some researchers[45]believe to be a bellwether ofclimate change.[43]

Some Adélie penguins also actively and deliberately engage in homosexual activity. In one instance recorded in 1996, two wild male individuals courted each other and took turns mounting and copulating with each other.[46]The reciprocal nature of the event indicates that both individuals were aware that they were courting and copulating with another male. The observing researchers suggested that this was practice for heterosexual encounters or a "response to high sexual motivation but a lack of females," but these claims follow a long-running historical pattern of obscuring, denying, and explaining away homosexual behavior in animals.[47]

Migration

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Adélie penguins are identified and weighed each time they cross the automated weighbridge on their way to or from the sea.[48]

Adélie penguins living in theRoss Searegion in Antarctica migrate an average of about 13,000 kilometres (8,100 mi) each year as they follow the sun from their breeding colonies to winter foraging grounds and back again. During the winter, the sun does not rise south of theAntarctic Circle,but sea ice grows during the winter months and increases for hundreds of miles from the shoreline, and into more northern latitudes, all around Antarctica. As long as the penguins live at the edge of thefast ice,they will see sunlight. As the ice recedes in the spring, the penguins remain on the edge of it, until once again, they are on the shoreline during a sunnier season. The longest treks have been recorded at 17,600 kilometres (10,900 mi).[49]

Osmoregulation

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Adélie penguins are faced with extremeosmoticconditions, as their frozen habitats offer little fresh water. Such desert conditions mean that the vast majority of the available water is highly saline, causing the diets of Adélie penguins to be heavy in salt.[50]They manage to circumvent this problem by eating krill with internal concentrations of salt at the lower end of their possible concentrations, helping to lower the amount of ingested salts.[50]The amount of sodium imposed by this sort of diet is still relatively heavy and can create complications when considering the less tolerant chicks. Adult Adélie penguins feed their chicks by regurgitating the predigested krill, which can impose an excessive salt intake on the chicks. Adult birds address this problem by altering the ion concentrations while the food is still being held in their stomachs. By removing a portion of the sodium and potassium ions, adult Adélie penguins protect their chicks from ingesting excessive amounts of sodium.[50]Adélie penguins also manage their salt intake by concentratingcloacalfluids to a much higher degree than most other birds are capable. This ability is present regardless of ontogeny in Adélie penguins, meaning that both adults and juveniles are capable of withstanding extreme levels of salt ion concentration.[50]However, chicks do possess a greater ability to concentrate chloride ions in their cloacal fluids.[50]Salt glandsalso play a major role in the excretion of excess salts. In aquatic birds such as the Adelie penguin, nasal salt glands excrete an extremely concentrated sodium chloride solution, reducing the load on their kidneys.[51]

These excretions are crucial in the maintenance of Antarctic ecosystems. Penguinrookeriescan be home to thousands of penguins, all of which are concentrating waste products in their digestive tracts and nasal glands.[52]These excretions inevitably drop to the ground. The concentration of salts and nitrogenous wastes helps to facilitate the flow of material from the sea to the land, serving to make it habitable for bacteria which live in the soils.[52]

In Antarctica

Threats

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Adult Adélie penguins are regularly preyed upon byleopard seals.South polar skuas,in particular, andgiant petrelskill many chicks and eat eggs as well. Giant petrels andorcaswill occasionally kill adult Adelie penguins.Kelp gullsandsnowy sheathbillsalso prey on chicks and eggs.[53]

In 2024, researchers fromFederation University Australiareported more than 532 dead Adélie penguins on Antarctica'sHeroína Island,with theH5N1bird flu suspected as the cause. The virus, having arrived inSouth Americain 2022, poses a risk to Antarctic wildlife. Samples from the deceased penguins are under analysis, and the H5 strain has been detected in localskuaseabirds, potentially facilitating further spread. This situation is particularly concerning for the wildlife of the region, which includes an estimated 20 million pairs of penguins and the already climate-threatenedemperor penguins.[54]

Status

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Adélie penguins andMount Erebus,photographed during theTerra NovaExpeditionof 1913

Because of its very large and increasing population (estimated at more than 10 million mature individuals in 2020), and its unfragmented habitat, the Adélie penguin is considered by theInternational Union for Conservation of Natureto be a species ofleast concern.[2]

A comprehensive census of the global Adélie penguin population was carried out in 2014 using analysis of high-resolution satellite images in combination with actual field surveys. The researchers looked forguano-discoloured coastal areas (red/brown patches in areas with no snow) in the satellite images, and augmented their findings with field surveys in areas where no good satellite images were available or where the presence of multiple penguins species was suspected. The results of field surveys were only used if they had been done within the previous four years. This census found an estimated 3.79 million breeding pairs in 251 distinct breeding colonies, including more than 40 that had never been surveyed before,[55]a 53% increase over a census completed 20 years earlier. The colonies are distributed around the coastline of the Antarctic land and ocean. Colonies have declined on theAntarctic Peninsulasince the early 1980s,[40]but those declines have been more than offset by increases inEast Antarctica[citation needed].During the breeding season, they congregate in large breeding colonies, some over a quarter of a million pairs.[56]Individual colonies can vary dramatically in size, and some may be particularly vulnerable to climate fluctuations.[57]TheDanger Islandshave been identified as an "important bird area" byBirdLife Internationallargely because it supports Adélie penguin colonies,[58]with 751,527 pairs recorded in at least five distinct colonies. In March 2018, a colony of 1.5 million was discovered.[59][60]

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^About 100pamphletsof the notes he took had been circulated to a selected few bearing the bold headerNot for Publication."Levick himself was equally cautious. References to these observations in the notebooks have often been coded by his rewriting certain entries on these behaviours using theGreek Alpha betand then pasting this new text over the original entry (Fig. 1), whilst some entries were written directly in the Greek Alpha bet ".[42]The following is an example of such a note; a transcription into theEnglish Alpha betis given on the right:

    Θις ἀφτερνooν ἰ σαυ ἀ μoστ εχτραoρδιναρι σιtε. ἀ πενγυιν ὐας ἀκτυαλλι ενyαyεδ ἰν σoδoμι ᾿uπoν θε βoδι ὀφ ἀ δεαδ ὑιτε θρoατεδ βιρδ ὀφ ἰτς ὀνε σπεσιες. Θε ἀκτ ὀccυπιεδ ἀ φυλλ μινυτε, θε πoσιτιoν τακεν ὐπ βι θε κoχ διφφερινy ἰν νo ρεσπεκτ φρoμ θατ ὀφ ὀρδιναρι κoπυλατιoν, ἀνδ θε ὑoλε ακτ ὐας yoνε θρoυ, δoυν τo θε φιναλ δεπρεςςιoν ὀφ θε χλoακα.[42]

    This afternoon I saw a most extraordinary site [sic]. A penguin was actually engaged in sodomy upon the body of a dead white-throated bird of its own species. The act occurred a full minute, the position taken up by the cock differing in no respect from that of ordinary copulation, and the whole act was gone through down to the final depression of thecloaca.[42]

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