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 Military penguin becomes a 'Sir':
A penguin who was previously made a Colonel-in-Chief of the Norwegian Army has been knighted at Edinburgh Zoo.
Penguin Nils Olav has been an honorary member and mascot of the Norwegian King's Guard since 1972.
Over the years, he has been promoted through the ranks after being adopted by Royal Guard who visited the zoo.
During the ceremony, Nils had a sword dubbed on each side of his head, where his shoulders should be, to confirm his regimental knighthood. The Beeb also reports that "The proud penguin was on his best behaviour throughout most of the ceremony, but shortly before the ritual was concluded, and possibly suffering a bout of nerves, he was seen to deposit a discreet white puddle on the ground."
King penguins are the second largest species of penguin, behind the emperor penguin. They nest on islands around the edge of Antarctica, and feed on fish squid and krill in the open sea off of Antarctica.
A study by Norwegian, French, and South African researchers earlier this year found that the penguins are at risk because of global warming. Warmer years resulted in two effects: an immediate decrease in breeding activity, and a decrease in penguin survival (measured two years after a warm year). Warm years reduce the number of prey available to penguins, reducing chick survival, as well as weakening growing juveniles. The mechanisms are a bit more elaborate than that, and the way they traced the causation is pretty neat, really.
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