Along South America’s windswept southern coast, Magellanic penguins have spent decades nesting in relative safety. For much of the twentieth century, sheep ranching dominated the region, and pumas ...

Penguins do not react to people the way most wild animals do. When a human appears on an Antarctic shoreline, many penguins do not scatter or hide. They keep walking. Some pause a short distance away ...

Pumas in southern Patagonia have discovered an unexpected new food source in the dense colonies of Magellanic penguins, and the shift is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about big cat ...

Chinstrap penguins are striking Antarctic seabirds famous for their thin black ‘chinstrap’ marking and energetic lifestyle. Their diet is dominated by Antarctic krill, which fuels their long foraging ...