Around 2,000 penguins have appeared dead on the coast of eastern Uruguay in the last 10 days, and the cause, which does not appear to be avian influenza, remains a mystery, authorities said.
  • xuxebiko@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    Ninety percent are young specimens that arrive without fat reserves and with empty stomachs," she said, and stressed that all samples taken have tested negative for avian influenza.

    They fucking starved to death :'(

    • pepperonisalami@lemmy.worldEnglish
      01·
      2 years ago

      I’m all supportive for the reduction of meat consumption, but I believe even collective individual action won’t cut it.

      • Druid@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        Every little bit matters. Next time it might be 19 instead of 20 of them. That’s a win in my books.

        Edit: 1999 instead of 2000 I meant

    • Stuka@lemmy.mlEnglish
      02·
      2 years ago

      Glad to see the most annoying parts of reddit have made it to lemmy. Vegan circlejerks in every thread

      • Druid@lemmy.zipEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        I missed the part where this was a circlejerky comment but sure.

        vegan btw

  • Tag365@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    Why are penguins being stranded on the beach like they’re whales? That’s disturbing to see.

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Massive die offs happen all the time. We’re just around to record these things now.

      Having said that, seems alarming they were starved. Much to unpack there.

  • Dr. Moose@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    The fact that “mommy, what’s a <animal>?” future is becoming a reality should be a fucking emberassment for all of us. Yet no one will pause their fish consumption because “it’s tasty”. The earth is being killed for literal entertainment.

        • InverseParallax@lemmy.worldEnglish
          01·
          2 years ago

          I’m sorry this argument is utterly stupid, by this logic we shouldn’t grow vegetables either.

          This is the kind of quick talking points some PR intern throws together overnight for cheap because his boss needs to pitch against some bill or more likely try to keep the wild quotas high by arguing that their harvest is the actually sustainable model. You need to learn how to read these K-street pitches, or they’ll spin you to believing up is down and good is evil.

  • QuantumEyetanglement@lemmy.oneEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    TL;DR nobody knows. It has happened in smaller numbers but not like this. People think over fishing (but a similar event previously in Brazil with no known cause)

    • Seytoux@lemmy.oneEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      I’m waaaaay out of my waters here, but if I had to take a wild guess: over fishing, changing of chemistry of the oceans do to climate change and yeah rising of median temperature (as we can all feel) of the world … in summary: my guess is human activity.

  • DaveNa@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    The comments here are at the same level of any mainstream platform. You made it lemmy! You are mainstream now!

  • fiestapinguino@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    2 years ago

    I studied and lived with these species in Punta Tombo Argentina. Their food source is known to be moving further north. But we also saw these catastrophic events from time to time where the juvies had a super high mortality rate in their first year away

      • fiestapinguino@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        That’s the weird part, because usually species will move to poles from climate change related stressors. The waters of coastal Patagonia have had issues with fishery mismanagement so that could explain the depleted stock. I have to talk to the researchers on the project to see if they’re learning more about the movement of the fish