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Posted Mon Feb 11 2008: from The Times of India:
King penguins could be wiped out by climate change http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1202765499
"PARIS: One of the emblems of the Antarctic, the king penguin, could be driven to extinction by climate change, a French study published on Monday warns. In a long-term investigation on the penguins' main breeding grounds, investigators found that a tiny warming of the Southern Ocean by the El Nino effect caused a massive fall in the birds' ability to survive. If predictions by UN scientists of ever-higher temperatures in coming decades prove true, the species faces a major risk of being wiped out, they say. "
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The ApocaDocs say:
This species takes an entire year to complete the breeding cycle; no wonder they're on the brink! Can't they get with the program and hurry up?

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