It ’s # PenguinAwarenessDay and conservation scientists have discover the perfect way to increase our cognizance . They trounce a video camera to a Gentoo penguin and we are all reward with a penguin’s - eye view of how to hound sardines .
A team from the ArgentinianCADIC - CONICETand theTawaki Projectare conducting a comparison between the gentoo penguin ( Pygoscelis papua ) of Isla Martillo , Tierra del Fuego , and New Zealand ’s sensationalistic - eyed penguins ( Megadyptes antipodes ) . The Tawaki Project donate thePENGUCam photographic camera , suited to placing on the back of a penguin , to their colleagues at the southern tip of the Americas , who put it on a manly gentoo and were rewarded with this awing footage .
The video expose gentoos ' adaptability to hunt . Their usual feeding spots are near the sea seam , where they hunt for crustaceans and diminished calamari . However , clearly when they materialise upon a school of raciness - sized Pisces on the room they are capable of take vantage , thrust and twisting with impressive speed and lightsomeness .
Prior to this video recording , researcher had surmise sardine made up a material part of the diet of seabirds in the Beagle Channel between Tierra del Fuego and a curing of modest island . “ Now it is confirmed and with a maven behind the camera : the penguin , ” saidAndrea Raya Reyof theWildlife Conservation Society(WCS ) Argentina in astatement . “ We attached the gimmick just for one foraging trip-up , and upon the penguin ’s proceeds we unattached the twist and monitored the breeding succeeder of the nest . The Gentoo retain with its parental duties and taking care of the materialisation . ”
The WCS has help fund the Tierra del Fuego penguin conservation political program for more than 20 years . They have been rewarded with plenty of cloth for past penguin awareness daylight but asstars of the blind , rather than as their own photographic camera operator .
In the sprightliness of Penguin Awareness Day , here are some facts to be aware of :
