Penguin Science | Exploring Species Climate Change Options
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 30,000 year-old record contained in deposits of their bones, we know more about how Antarctic penguins will adjust to rapid climate change than almost any other creature on Earth.
Unlike other animals, Antarctic penguins cannot hide the secrets of their existence to the enterprising observer --- almost everything they do is in broad daylight, not hidden by trees, rocky cavities, or precipitous terrain. Herein, we tell the story that these penguins are trying to tell us, “How to survive climate and ecosystem change.”. . . Learn more
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Now Available | Penguin Science the DVD
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.
Discover how giant icebergs, disappearing sea ice, and shifting weather patterns are affecting penguins, changing Antarctica, and forecasting trouble for our planet.
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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. . .Learn more
