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In the previous sentence, adélie was singular, but here is plural. Does "adélies" mean a group of "adélie"?

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Rebecca

Yes! In the previous sentence "adélie" was used to refer to a type of penguin. In this sentence "adélies" is used because the narrator is talking about adélie penguins in general.

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