Sponsored by the National Science Foundation this 40-minute educational film takes viewers on a journey to Antarctica and inside raucous “penguin cities” where millions of penguins converge once a year to rear their young.
In 2006, we erected an automated camera at Cape Royds to record the
comings and goings of penguins. We are especially interested in the
number of birds that return to molt after we depart each year in
February.
Like animals everywhere, Antarctic penguins are adjusting, or not, to changes in their habitat brought by warming temperatures. With extensive field research on their existing colonies, and a 45,000 year-old record contained in deposits of their bones and egg shells, we know more about how Antarctic penguins will adjust to rapid climate change than almost any other creature on Earth.
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Sponsored by the National Science Foundation this 40-minute educational film takes viewers on a journey to Antarctica and inside raucous “penguin cities” where millions of penguins converge once a year to rear their young.
In 2006, we erected an automated camera at Cape Royds to record the
comings and goings of penguins. We are especially interested in the
number of birds that return to molt after we depart each year in
February.
National Science Foundation
H.T.Harvey & Associates
Oregon State University
PRBO - Conservation Science
Oikonos - Ecosystem Knowledge
Landcare Research - New Zealand
National Aeronautics & Space Administration
