Tag: Marie Auger-Méthé UBC Institute for the Oceans

• Friday, June 29th 2018 - 05:51 UTC

  Falkland Islands Canadian tracking experience with Gentoo penguins

  

  Data sent from penguins to space and back to University of British Columbia could help researchers determine why the species’ breeding population fluctuates so dramatically. UBC researchers visited the South Atlantic in April to attach small transmitters to the backs of 66 Gentoo penguins from two colonies in the Falkland Islands