Internal organ weights of the blue penguin Eudyptula minor

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 fle dged immature blue penguins, external body measurements and internal organ weights were recorded. The relationship between organ weights and body weig hts shows that the liver and abdominal fat pad are most closely correlated with the body mass index, a quantitative indication of adequacy of conditio n.