Surviving off junk
Ludynia K, Roux J-P, Kemper J, Underhill LG (2010) Surviving off junk: low energy prey dominates the diet of African penguins Spheniscus demersus at Mercury Island, Namibia, between 1996 and 2009. African Journal of Marine Science 32: 3, 563-572.
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Published:21/08/2026
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Ludynia K, Roux J-P, Kemper J, Underhill LG (2010) Surviving off junk: low energy prey dominates the diet of African penguins Spheniscus demersus at Mercury Island, Namibia, between 1996 and 2009. African Journal of Marine Science 32: 3, 563-572.
The diet of African penguins Spheniscus demersus in Namibia consisted mainly of sardine Sardinops sagax in the 1950s. Since the collapse of pelagic fish stocks in the 1970s, birds fed mainly on bearded (pelagic) goby Sufflogobius bibarbatus, a low-energy prey species. We present diet?
