The main threats to African penguins include commercial fishing (which harvests sardines and other shoaling fishes, their primary food sources), oil pollution, and predation. While the fishing industry depletes their food sources, and predators such as leopards, mongooses, and feral cats threaten them on land. In addition, seals and sharks are threats at sea.
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