Talk:Southern Rockhopper Penguin
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[edit] Life-span
What is their life span? I would really appreciate the feed-back. - Cameron
- Life span estimates are not available. As far as I know there are no ongoing long-term banding and monitoring schemes of any Rockhopper population. A rough estimate can only derive from other penguin species that are monitored in the wild (i.e. Little penguins, Yellow-eyed penguin). And those species can live up to 20-25 years. However, the majority of birds does not reach that age, mainly because they get killed/get eaten/starve to death etc. So a good average age for a penguin is somewhere between 10 and 15 years I should think.
21-June-2005, c00ch
[edit] New photo?
Hey, I took a photo of a rockhopper recently that I was pretty happy with. It might be good for illustrating their facial features more closely in the article, or their damn evil red eyes. Whatever goes!
