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Chinstrap penguins are highly specialised predators. Chris Oosthuizen©/no commercial reuse

July 15, 2024

Diving with penguins: tech gives ocean scientists a bird’s‑eye view of foraging in Antarctic waters

Chris Oosthuizen, University of Cape Town; Emmanuel Dufourq, African Institute for Mathematical Sciences; Lorène Jeantet, African Institute for Mathematical Sciences; Pierre Pistorius, Nelson Mandela University, and Stefan Schoombie, University of Cape Town

The machine learning model can work in the absence of video data, identifying prey capture events from new acceleration and depth data.

Des manchots royaux en mer. John Dickens

May 18, 2020

Andréa Thiebault, Nelson Mandela University; Isabelle Charrier, Université Paris-Saclay; Pierre Pistorius, Nelson Mandela University, and Thierry Aubin, Université Paris-Saclay

Une équipe de chercheurs a découvert que les manchots émettent des sons sous l’eau. Voici les détails de cette fascinante découverte.

King Penguins at sea. John Dickens

March 31, 2020

Andréa Thiebault, Nelson Mandela University; Isabelle Charrier, Université Paris-Saclay; Pierre Pistorius, Nelson Mandela University, and Thierry Aubin, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)

This study provides the first evidence that penguins emit sounds underwater when they hunt.