Penguins tend to evoke images of Antarctic ice shelves rather than sunny shorelines. Yet along the coast of South Africa lives the African penguin, a small, vocal seabird adapted to temperate waters.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This species was once abundant along the coasts of South Africa and Namibia. But the population has fallen by about 78% over the ...

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Mashudu Mashau says it takes about two minutes to catch a penguin, a task he does weekly to investigate sightings of injured or sickly seabirds.

Off the coast of Cape Town, Robben Island is home to African penguins, whose future is by no means assured. Ariadne Van Zandbergen / Africa Imagery Of the world’s 17 penguin species, perhaps the most ...