{"id":798319,"date":"2026-03-02T04:36:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T04:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/798319\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T04:36:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T04:36:12","slug":"for-antarctic-penguins-molting-can-now-be-deadly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/798319\/","title":{"rendered":"For Antarctic Penguins, Molting Can Now Be Deadly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"storyParagraph\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                        Emperor penguins can&#8217;t skip their annual wardrobe change, and that may now be killing them. A new study finds the birds&#8217; once-routine full-body molt has turned into a high-stakes gamble as Antarctic sea ice rapidly retreats. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Adult emperors must park on stable sea ice for 30 to 40 days each year while they shed and regrow their uniquely insulating, waterproof feathers, reports the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c204626888zo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BBC<\/a>. During that stretch, they burn up to half their body weight and are effectively grounded, without food.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Emperor penguins can&#8217;t skip their annual wardrobe change, and that may now be killing them. A new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":798320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3847],"tags":[45260,2311,8334,144084,4737,1984,187830,2757,9385,70,231716,16,15,1717],"class_list":["post-798319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-antarctica","tag-climate-change","tag-discoveries","tag-emperor-penguins","tag-extinction","tag-global-warming","tag-ice-melt","tag-penguin","tag-penguins","tag-science","tag-sea-ice","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-wildlife"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116157728870073998","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/798320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}