{"id":308980,"date":"2026-03-02T05:51:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T05:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/308980\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T05:51:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T05:51:06","slug":"for-antarctic-penguins-molting-can-now-be-deadly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/308980\/","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":308981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[21453,390,36367,21394,11591,3090,102494,111,139,69,27626,35994,147,166847,406],"class_list":{"0":"post-308980","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-antarctica","9":"tag-climate-change","10":"tag-discoveries","11":"tag-emperor-penguins","12":"tag-extinction","13":"tag-global-warming","14":"tag-ice-melt","15":"tag-new-zealand","16":"tag-newzealand","17":"tag-nz","18":"tag-penguin","19":"tag-penguins","20":"tag-science","21":"tag-sea-ice","22":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}