Humboldts

Consider the once famous University of Göttingen, which had hosted such professors and students as Gauss, Schopenhauer, Metternich, Riemann, Bismarck, Heine, and both Humboldts.

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There was a report of a single Humboldt penguin off British Columbia's Queen Charlotte Islands in 1944; one was reported near Long Beach, Wash., in 1975; three sightings of one to three Humboldts off the coast of Vancouver Island, B.C., were recorded in 1978, with pictures published in local newspapers; and a single penguin was reported off the Washington coast in 1985. ...

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They say it is unlikely the Humboldts swam from Peru to the Pacific Northwest, in part because it would mean traversing climate conditions the birds are not well equipped to handle.

Archive 2007-06-01 2007

Could it be that Humboldts natural food sources in their historic ranges aside from other humboldts has been damaged?

Archive 2007-07-01 Jax 2007

There are documented reports of Humboldts attacking divers, and famed videographer Scott Cassell has even made himself a 'squid suit' designed to protect him against their razor sharp beaks and chitinous teeth ringed tentacle suckers.

Arrr, more squid! Jax 2007

Only the highest minds — our Humboldts, and Bonplands, and Schomburgks

Westward Ho! 2007

While the Humboldts feed on anchovies and hake (normally prey of the tuna in this region) the fishermen would love to catch, their numbers increase more dramatically because their natural predators (tuna, swordfish, shark) have been fished into a steep decline.

Archive 2007-07-01 Jax 2007

Could it be that Humboldts natural food sources in their historic ranges aside from other humboldts has been damaged?

Arrr, more squid! Jax 2007

Or my bet could it be that commercial fishing has so decimated stocks of fish, both predator and prey, that the Humboldts are now filling a gap that was never there before?

Arrr, more squid! Jax 2007

While the Humboldts feed on anchovies and hake (normally prey of the tuna in this region) the fishermen would love to catch, their numbers increase more dramatically because their natural predators (tuna, swordfish, shark) have been fished into a steep decline.

Arrr, more squid! Jax 2007