“It offers a profoundly adverse, but highly plausible, endgame for Antarctic krill that has serious implications for both the Southern Ocean food web and sustainable management of fisheries ...

Climate change is also driving penguins to colonize new areas, or to stay in regions longer than they normally would, ...

The study suggests that even the faintest hint of penguin droppings in the water is enough to prompt krill into escape ...

Just a faint whiff of penguin poop pushes their favorite prey to take "frantic" evasive action, reveals new research.

A single Antarctic krill is about the size of your pinky finger ... Their swarms are so massive they can be seen from space. They’re food by the millions for seals and penguins and whales.

Transport of Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) across the Scotia Sea.Part II ... Spatial structure of the Southern Ocean ecosystem: Predator-prey linkages in Southern Ocean food webs. J. Anim. Ecol.

They are the primary food source for many species of whales, seals, penguins and fish. Krill are known to be sensitive to sea temperature, especially in the areas where they grow as adults.

Researchers from the UTAS and Georgia Institute of Technology, USA, wanted to build on earlier research done in 2016 about krill’s behaviour around food sources and instead see their reaction to ...

The Southern Ocean encircling Antarctica ... sole food supply. Whales feed for roughly 100 days out of each year; depending on the species, an adult whale may consume 1 to 6 tons of krill in ...

“Here we show for the first time that a small amount of penguin guano causes a sudden change in the feeding and swimming behaviors of Antarctic krill,” said Dr. Nicole Hellessey, a postdoctoral ...