ABSTRACT: During a series of transect legs through the pack ice of the eastern Ross Sea, aboard the RV icebreaker ‘Nathaniel B. Palmer’, we: (1) assessed the habitat chosen for moulting by emperor ...

Unlike all other birds, penguins go through what is called a “catastrophic” moult. For the penguin, it is probably as bad as it sounds. Falklands Conservation recalls that every penguin must moult ...

People who live with pets notice that some animals moult in the spring and fall. Losing feathers or fur is unattractive, but it leads to a beautiful new coat in which to survive the winter or to ...

In a periodically changing environment it is important for animals to properly time the major events of their life in order to maximise their lifetime fitness. For a non-migratory bird the timing of ...