{"id":509480,"date":"2026-03-02T13:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T13:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/509480\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T13:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T13:12:09","slug":"for-antarctic-penguins-molting-can-now-be-deadly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/509480\/","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<p>  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. <\/p>\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":509481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[15697,49,48,6093,10505,75820,22030,6092,102617,3197,116223,66,52261,323],"class_list":["post-509480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-antarctica","tag-ca","tag-canada","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-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}