{"id":4588,"date":"2022-10-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/current_affairs\/uncategorized\/07-10-2022\/emperor-penguin\/"},"modified":"2022-10-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T00:00:00","slug":"emperor-penguin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/07-10-2022\/emperor-penguin","title":{"rendered":"Emperor Penguin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",serif\"><strong>In Context<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:disc\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">No evidence of microplastics in emperor penguins, says study which is an important assessment of environmental pollution at the South Pole.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",serif\"><strong>Emperor Penguin<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:disc\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">It is the largest member of the penguin order (Sphenisciformes). It is also the tallest and heaviest of all living penguin species.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:disc\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",serif\"><strong>Geographical Presence: <\/strong><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",serif\">Endemic to Antarctica<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:disc\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",serif\"><strong>IUCN Status: <\/strong><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",serif\">Near threatened.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",serif\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/_ou9WLZH4dLKR2U4TQeHbvn9wofl2qa0WXYff-WAF_pzw3PE8UAMNfbrv3-kuON0q8K2IJNkrAYqJ6y-VGxR_ndZhQr-ZZbFLa43ku9izxs9P0DXsFa5kxnxxHOosWXZTyK4f24WLtwy6_J9kuo5dKLQyepy442ZH_gqq2xeCfjjgcZ7ABpHa-f_Ag\" style=\"height:284.0; width:338.0\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",serif\"><strong>Penguin<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:disc\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",serif\">They are a group of <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",serif\"><strong>aquatic flightless birds<\/strong><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",serif\">. Every year the 25th of April is observed as<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",serif\"><strong> World Penguin Day.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",serif\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:disc\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",serif\">Live primarily in the Southern Hemisphere with only one species, the<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",serif\"><strong> Galapagos penguin<\/strong><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",serif\">, found <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",serif\"><strong>north of the equator.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",serif\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:disc\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">Penguins employ physiological adaptations and cooperative behaviors in order to deal with an incredibly harsh environment.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:disc\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">Penguins are divided into six genera.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"margin-left:48px; text-align:center\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",serif\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/SXSH3VjyONPlc3NDRXhfK5HVHEvbevff-5Z3CygpQiqrp5wkhM9loEXqIN1aOxcURRggiP1OgSI8pL2LI4emPUZD-5VAeBZUibsDZHJIf5RrgiJ3MJr-2q6P0dPKcYdjbNZ3tGB3WnVyw0EchSf3B17wX5i5kac8Jd3bBI9tuuSnJ5VsP6_w4G81nQ\" style=\"height:373.0; width:337.0\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",serif\">Source:<\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/news\/wildlife-biodiversity\/no-evidence-of-microplastics-in-emperor-penguins-says-study-85307\" style=\"text-decoration-line:none\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",serif\"><span style=\"color:#1155cc\">DTE<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Context No evidence of microplastics in emperor penguins, says study which is an important assessment of environmental pollution at the South Pole. Emperor Penguin It is the largest member of the penguin order (Sphenisciformes). It is also the tallest and heaviest of all living penguin species. Geographical Presence: Endemic to Antarctica IUCN Status: Near [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[26,32],"class_list":["post-4588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs","tag-gs-3","tag-species-in-news"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/wp-images.nextias.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto\/ca\/uploads\/2023\/07\/837993Screenshot_20221007-123332_Android System.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}