What Are Emperor Penguins Monogamous?

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Although the reading passage was correct for the time it was written , new data presented in the lecture discredits all of it’s assumptions that emperor penguins are monogamous, they return to the one rookery for nesting and they are safe in modern world.

As for the first approach, greater observations figured out that both monogamous and polygamous lifestyles are possible for penguins, but the second variant is met only in 15 percent of cases.

Moreover, the only place for laying eggs was also a mistake because the recent research of Institute of Minnesota fixed six cases when animals had altered their rookery. So we can deduce that the approaches wrong.

Furthermore, nowadays it’s also incorrect to suppose that emperor penguins are not in

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