RE: 1.5 million new Adélie penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae) was just found on the remote Danger Islands!
@valth this is really promising news especially when you consider your last post on the impact the climatic change and the distances they have to travel. Perhaps if they started a relocation program to some of the islands closer to viable food sources it might help bolster numbers. However i suspect its ingrained into their DNA that these islands are “home” for them.
You are quite correct, we may have explored a lot but we have much much more to discover, and most likely even new discoveries from right under our noses. When we get too presumptive, we let the science slip and end up missing out on so much!!
It is nice to see science and technology melding well in this case:- who would have thought that you would have been able to count the number of penguins on a remote island by drones 10-15 years ago!!
Yeah, it is absolutely great news when we consider how several other populations are having huge problems these days.
Your suggestion about relocation problems are interesting. I know many species of birds have this preprogrammed home destination when they travel, but I honestly have no idea if this applies to the Adélie penguins.
That's true. Drones are turning out to be really useful these days, and I think they will just keep on increasing their usefulness as the technology increases their range, image resolution etc.