作者：纯卓 来源：原创 发布日期：08-24
一 | Canberra, Oct 12 (UNI) Australia's top Antarctic scientists have reported a rapid decline in a population of Adelie penguins.
According to research published by the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD) on Tuesday, a large Adelie population off the East Antarctic coast has declined by 43 per cent over the last decade.
Ecologists from the AAD, led by Louise Emmerson and Colin Southwell, surveyed 52 islands along the 100-km coastline.
They found the number of occupied nests fell from 176,622 to 99,946 in that period.
Their findings are contrary to other Adelie penguin populations in east Antarctica where numbers have been stable.
The most widespread penguin species, the Adelie is found along the entire Antarctic coast. Models had predicted the particular population observed by the AAD would continue to grow.
Researchers concluded a change in environmental conditions was the cause of the decline.
"We think this population decline was initially triggered by five years of extensive summer sea ice adjacent to the colony in the mid-2000s, which hampered access to the adults' foraging areas and saw virtually no chicks survive," Emmerson said in a media release.
"The frequency of these unfavorable breeding conditions subsequently remained high, and fledgling survival also began to decrease. These two processes together resulted in a more rapid population decline than would be expected if they had been acting in isolation."
She warned that the smaller the population becomes the harder it will be for individuals to survive.
"It may be that the old adage of safety in numbers is playing out for the fledglings in the vast and harsh Southern Ocean, although exactly why and how needs further investigation," Emmerson said.
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二 | (ECNS) -- Chinese tech giant Huawei has denied a nationwide removal or ban on a traditional toy known as "bamboo cicada," after a viral video compared its buzzing sound to the cheers heard at a 2023 Huawei product launch, sparking complaints about the brand. Huawei said on Tuesday it had filed complaints against 171 videos for alleged damage to its commercial reputation as part of routine legal enforcement, but that the action was not aimed at the toy itself. "As of Tuesday evening, we monitored more than 56,000 pieces of information related to the 'bamboo cicada,' but we only filed complaints against 171 specific infringing pieces of content, of which 144 were taken down by online platforms," a spokesperson for Harmony Intelligent Mobility Alliance, a Huawei-led automotive venture, said in a social media statement. The company "never requested any e-commerce platform to remove or stop selling the 'bamboo cicada' product," the spokesperson added, calling reports of a blanket ban "inconsistent with the facts." The controversy erupted after Chinese internet users noticed that the rattling sound of the bamboo cicada resembles the audience's exclamation at a Huawei product event in 2023. Parody videos circulated widely, and their subsequent removal fueled speculation that Huawei had sought a wholesale crackdown. The incident quickly became a trending topic on Chinese social media, with the toy turning into an unexpected viral meme. Huawei stated that it has long faced "malicious editing, voice imitation, AI-manipulated portraits, false attribution, and defamation" targeting its executives online, and that the latest complaints were part of "routine daily evidence collection and filing" against specific infringing content. (By Zhang Dongfang) 
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