Krill (IMAGE)

Virginia Institute of Marine Science

Krill

Caption

These krill -- recovered from a penguin's stomach through a non-invasive procedure called lavage -- show the importance of these shrimplike crustaceans to the penguin diet.

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Photo courtesy of Donna Patterson-Fraser.

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