Little penguin DNA: what seven colonies say about St Kilda

Little penguin among low coastal plants at Phillip Island, one of seven colonies in the little penguin DNA study

Seven colonies, 50 adult penguins from each, and more than 1,100 km between the two farthest apart. That was the scale of a little penguin DNA study presented in 2007 by Rebecca Overeem and colleagues from Deakin University’s Warrnambool campus, Phillip Island Nature Parks and New Zealand’s University of Otago. The St Kilda breakwater was […]