From the article’s first paragraph, which was in bold: “Thousands of emperor penguin chicks drowned when the sea-ice on which they were being raised was destro

From the article’s first paragraph, which was in bold: “Thousands of emperor penguin chicks drowned when the sea-ice on which they were being raised was destroyed in severe weather.” And for some context on what ‘thousands’ means relative to the global population of emperor penguins : “But the Brunt population, which had sustained an average of 14,000 to 25,000 breeding pairs for several decades (5-9% of the global population), essentially disappeared overnight.”