A pair of Adelie penguins before going for a ‘feed dip ... scientists a bird's eye view of the creature's incredible underwater hunting skills. Using video cameras weighing just 33 grams ...
Video cameras on penguins have revealed their underwater interactions with habitats, prey and other penguins but this is the most dramatic footage yet captured,” said Dr Norman Ratcliffe ...
German underwater robotics company EvoLogics has ... it attracted notice for its unusual, penguin-like look. The quick and agile Quadroin, designed for surveying and monitoring, uses EvoLogics ...
We couldn’t use any cameras that were already on the market: you can’t strap any old camera with an underwater housing to a penguin and expect it to be able to fish successfully. We needed a ...
After all, the emperor penguin can stay underwater for up to 27 minutes. And speaking of penguins it turns out their poop causes a big ruckus among zooplankton world. In a study published last ...
If its onshore waddle doesn't exactly confer nobility on the emperor, its remarkable underwater grace surely does. Yet this extraordinary bird faces new and extraordinary pressures — most ominously, ...
With the help of Poul Larsen, a mechanical engineer at the Technical University of Denmark, they analyzed hours of underwater footage and discovered that the penguins were doing something that ...
underwater acuity. Genes that help birds detect salty and sour tastes are active in penguins. But genes that help detect bitter, sweet and savoury tastes are inactivated. Those may no longer be ...
Like polar bears on the opposite pole, emperor penguins endure unfathomable hardships to breed and nurture each new generation — fasting for months through the planet's harshest winter. If their ...
A penguin’s resting heart rate can slow down greatly during a dive so that it can conserve oxygen underwater and spend more time finding food. Penguins have a short stiff tail. They can lean ...