Largest king penguin colony in the world has shrunk by 90%

Mongabay
Aug 6, 2018, 8:36 am261 pts
The world’s largest colony of king penguins has declined drastically by nearly 90 percent, a new study has found. The massive king penguin (Aptenodytes patagonicus) colony on the remote island of Île aux Cochons or Pig Island, a French territory in the southern Indian Ocean, was first discovered and…

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