Penguins always come to supper with their finery on. It hardly matters that their dinner rarely varies. Pygoscelis penguin, a genus that covers three distinct species of penguin, also called brush-tailed penguins, are much smaller than the famous emperor penguin. They live in the southernmost places on Earth, with some colonies living as far north as the Falkland Islands, a small collection of islands just off the southern tip of South America. These penguins eat primarily krill during the austral summer, which falls between November and March. This is why researchers at Stony Brook University have been using computational models run on the ACCESS resource Ookami to study the relationship between krill migration and Pygoscelis penguins.
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