Food requirements of breeding king penguins at Heard Island and potential overlap with commercial fisheries

Authors :: Barbara Wienecke
Geoffrey J. Moore
Graham Robertson
Source :: Polar Biology, 20 (5). pp. 293-302.
Publication Year :: 1998
Publisher :: Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 1998.
Abstract: The diet composition of king penguins (Aptenodytes patagonicus) at Heard Island (53°05′S; 73°30′E) was determined from stomach contents of 98 adults captured as they returned to the island throughout 1992. During the two growth seasons, the diet was dominated by the myctophid fish Krefftichthys anderssoni (94% by number, 48% by mass). The paralepidid fish Magnisudis prionosa contributed

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