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This year the small north-west town of Penguin celebrates its 150th anniversary. What started as a settlement trading timber ...
A Big Penguin, penguin-themed bollards and flaming penguin pies on the bakery menu — welcome to Penguin, a small coastal town in Tasmania's north-west that's really embraced its name.
"We found roughly 80 per cent of recorded penguin mortalities from ... "Dog attacks are one of those extra big stressors on this little bird in Tasmania," Dr Blamey said. There were 71 recorded ...
The foul stench of penguin poop ... food source for all of the big, charismatic fauna,” says Nicole Hellessey, an Antarctic marine scientist at the University of Tasmania in Hobart.
Don't miss out on the headlines from Tasmania. Followed categories will ... Almost 99 per cent of the Adelie penguin’s diet is krill, with an adult Adélie eating up to 1.6kg of it per day.