Thriller looms across the dying of no less than 2,000 penguins on the japanese coast of Uruguay. With authorities ruling out avian influenza, the dying the penguins is but to be identified.
The penguin deaths have occurred within the final 10 days. The penguins had been, reportedly, discovered useless in Atlantic Ocean and had been carried by currents to Uruguayan shores.
Carmen Leizagoyen, head of the Surroundings Ministry’s division of fauna, informed AFP that the Magellanic penguins, principally juveniles, died within the Atlantic Ocean and had been carried by currents to Uruguayan shores.
All samples had been examined destructive for avian influenza, she mentioned.
“That is mortality within the water. Ninety % are younger specimens that arrive with out fats reserves and with empty stomachs,” Leizagoyen was quoted by AFP.
Magellanic penguins principally stay on the continental shelf in Argentina. These penguins migrate north in the hunt for meals and heat water throughout winters. Research have proven them even in reaching the coast of Espirito Santo in Brazil.
It’s not regular for these many penguins to die, mentioned Leizagoyen. Earlier comparable incident passed off in Brazil final yr for “undetermined causes”.
Over 500 useless penguins had been noticed alongside six miles of Atlantic coast by Hector Caymaris, director of Laguna de Rocha protected space.
“From Nineties and 2000s we started to see animals with a scarcity of meals. The useful resource is over exploited,” Richard Tesore, of the NGO SOS Marine Wildlife Rescue informed AFP.
A subtropical cyclone within the Atlantic, which hit southeastern Brazil in mid-July, in all probability triggered the weakest animals to die from the inclement climate, he added.
Tesore additionally unhappy that useless petrels, albatrosses, seagulls, sea turtles and sea liones had been discovered useless on the seashores of Maldonado.
