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Eudyptula minor |
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Eudyptula minor prebreeding penguins. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| 99) bearing the Little Penguin label from Southeastern Australia. Perhaps it is because they remind us of ourselves with their little penguin tuxedos and their loopy, comical gait. Scientists in the late 1950s noted that, for a short interval after hatching, the species known as the little penguin (Eudyptula minor), have nostril tubes similar to those characteristic of modern albatrosses and their close kin, says David Penny, an evolutionary biologist at Massey University in Palmerston North, New Zealand. |
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