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7 January 2019 / The Independent / Tim Wyatt
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Thousands of penguins stranded on South American coast

Coastal Uruguay

Thousands of female penguins are being stranded along the coast of South America because of water pollution and fishing, research shows. A new study of Megellanic penguins, which breed in Patagonia in southern Argentina, explains for the first time why so many become stuck on beaches hundreds of miles further north.  Researchers found the man-made threats encountered as the


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Magellanic penguins, which are becoming threatened and stranded too far north by human activity
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