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by ANIL ANANTHASWARNY
[ from New Scientist ]
Miniature cameras mounted on penguins have recorded their social behaviour underwater for the first time.
Marine birds and mammals spend much of their lives in the open ocean, making it exceedingly difficult for biologists to study their behaviour.
So Akinori Takahashi, of the National Institute of Polar Research in Tokyo, Japan, and his colleagues mounted tiny cameras on five Adelie penguins and five chin-strap penguins to monitor their dives off Signy Island in Antarctica. Continued…
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by LISA A. ABRAHAM
[ from Akron Beacon Journal ]
An Akron Zoo employee took a dive in the penguin tank, and now her job is sleeping with the fishes.
A zoo official said senior zookeeper Tiffany Whipkey's dunk into the penguin tank began with a lunch table discussion about the television show Fear Factor and turned into a bet over whether she would jump into the 16,000-gallon penguin tank. Continued…
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