Dozens of endangered penguins killed by bees in South Africa
Al Jazeera
Some of the African penguins, found on a beach outside Cape Town, had 20 or more bee stings.
A swarm of bees has killed 63 endangered African penguins on a beach outside Cape Town.
The birds were found dead on Friday on the beach at Boulders, a popular tourist destination south of Cape Town.
They were part of a colony of African penguins (Spheniscus demersus) living in a nature reserve, which are considered endangered, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List.
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