Antarctic Penguins (360 video) - BBC News

It’s a shot taken from the front of the Ocean Endeavour ship as it cruises through the Antarctic Peninsula near the Argentine Islands. The ship is a tourist vessel on which a team of British scientists from Oxford University are based. They use the frequency of visits to the area to install and maintain a network of 40 remote cameras which take photos every hour, of every day of an entire Antarctic year. The photos help them monitor penguin colonies and see how climate change, fishing and tourism are affecting them. Penguinologist Dr Tom Hart from Oxford University visits a remote camera in a colony of Gentoo penguins on the Antarctic Peninsula. The camera has taken images every day for the past year and holds valuable data which helps the scientists understand how the changing conditions in the area affect the colonies. Dr Hart is replacing batteries, memory cards and making sure the kit is ready for another harsh winter. Camera placed in a colony of Gentoo penguins in the Antarctic Peninsula. The birds are nesting with their chicks during the summer….

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