A case of melanism found in a wild gentoo penguin living in Antarctica

A small team of team of biologists affiliated with several institutions in Argentina has found an instance of melanism in a wild gentoo penguin living in Antarctica. In their paper published in the journal Polar Biology, the group describes the specimen they observed and possible reasons for its coloring.


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Source: Phys.org