Northern rockhopper penguin truly different, in terms of more than reproductive isolation and some morphological features, was found in the mitochondrial sequences of the three species. It was found "E. c. filholi" and "E. c. chrysocome" were not as different genetically as "E. c. moseleyi" was to the other two subspecies. The level of genetic differentiation was similar to the genetic difference found in other penguin subspecies groups. Another way that scientists were able to differentiate the different subspecies of rockhoppers were in the parasites that fed off each separate rockhopper penguin species. Penguins are parasitised by 15 species of chewing lice in
Rockhopper Exploration Rockhopper Exploration Rockhopper Exploration PLC (LSE:RKH) is an oil and gas exploration company headquartered in Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom. It owns offshore exploration and production licences in the North Falkland Basin in the waters north of the Falkland Islands. Rockhopper is listed on the Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange. Rockhopper was founded in 2004 to explore for oil and gas in the Falkland Islands. It received a listing on the AIM market in 2005. On 16 April 2010, Rockhopper commenced drilling of its first exploration well, 14/10-B (subsequently renamed 14/10-2) on its Sea Lion prospect using the