New Zealand Journal of Zoology abstracts

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Z00013
Received and accepted 24 July 2000

Internal organ weights of the blue penguin Eudyptula minor

A. G. HOCKEN

East Riding
Whiterocks Road
RD 6-D Oamaru, New Zealand
email: agh@es.co.nz

Abstract  This work presents a database of weights of normal internal organs for the blue penguin, Eudyptula minor. During a necropsy study of 213 adult and fledged immature blue penguins, external body measurements and internal organ weights were recorded. The relationship between organ weights and body weights shows that the liver and abdominal fat pad are most closely correlated with the body mass index, a quantitative indication of adequacy of condition.

Keywords  blue penguin; Eudyptula minor; internal organ weight; nutrition

New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 2000, Vol. 27: 305-309

0301-4223/00/2704-0305 $7.00/0   (c) The Royal Society of New Zealand 2000

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