Researchers and citizen scientists complete first-ever Weddell seal count
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Researchers and citizen scientists complete first-ever Weddell seal count
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dr. david ainley, has been studying this colony for 20 years. anthony: so you re tagging the young ones? david: right. anthony: do you follow them through their entire life? i mean essentially david: yeah, this year we ve got a bunch of individuals that are 20 years old. anthony: why penguins, what brought you to penguin initially? david: well this kind of penguin does everything with no secrets. if you ask the right question and you re creative enough they re going to give you the answer without a lot of guessing. what really interests me is the relationship of the penguins to the ocean and how they fit into the food web. during the 90 s, small colonies like cape royds were increasing much faster than the large colonies where the competition for food was so intense, in the
nose to the grind stone. so the only advocacy for antarctica has to come from the public. it s very valuable to have these tours cause then people have an ownership, you know they ve been there and they see it. anthony: what keeps you coming back? i mean other than the work. david: i wanted to come to antarctica because i heard it was very severe place and nature was the king, daunting, having that chance to be humbled by something greater than you is i think an important part of being here. here, it all starts with a simple.