Emperor penguins do not have any land predators during the nesting season. Why is this? ?
As others have stated, Emperor penguins do not have any land predators during nesting season because no other critter is insane enough to make the trip into the heart of the Antarctic winter just to eat some penguins. As for Papua New Guinea, El Nino tends to disrupt the pattern of hot, moist air that gathers over the central highlands. This cool, dry air results in no daily rain storms during the rainy season, and drought conditions, which bring failures to crops and stress to plants – resulting mainly in starvation. The Gulf Stream carries warm water up the coast of North America, across the Atlantic, and over to the west coast of Ireland – so it’s a warm water current bringing warm weather. If krill were to be removed, all of those organisms would be affected. Krill are part of the zooplankton – so they’re affected by definition. Humpback whales feed directly on krill, so they’d be affected, and emperor penguins and orca feed on fish and seals that depend on the krill – so they’d be
