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Thanksgiving at the Penguin Colony

By David Ainley · November 23, 2007 · comments No comments yet
CAPE ROYDS, ANTARCTICA-- Well, let’s see, it was chicken and oriental rice for Thanksgiving dinner yesterday eve, and a rousing blizzard outside. Only in the…
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Penguins on the Scale

By David Ainley · November 20, 2007 · comments No comments yet
We’ve now got our stuff set up, including the weighbridge. This is an apparatus that identifies penguins (from the computer chip we inject under…
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Setting up Royds Penguin Camp

By David Ainley · November 17, 2007 · comments 1 comment
Two of us, Jean Pennycook (a science teacher) and I, arrived at Cape Royds, landing by helicopter chock full of food boxes, camping gear, and…
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Adventures with Adélie Penguins at Cape Royds in the 2007–08 Austral Summer

By David Ainley · November 16, 2007 · comments No comments yet
We have set out in the 12th year of a project in which we seek to understand why Adélie Penguin populations have been increasing in…
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