Ocean Sentry
The standard way of tagging penguins for science – putting bands around their flippers – affects their survival and reproduction, a study has found.
French researchers, reporting their work in the journal Nature, found king penguins had 40% fewer chicks if they were banded, and lived shorter lives.
They say continuing to use the tags would in most situations be unethical.
Flipper bands have been used for decades to identify individual penguins so they can be tracked on land and sea…. Read Full Article by Richard Black
