Tracking penguins
A pair of Adelie penguins tend their chicks at the Cape Bird breeding colony, McMurdo Sound, while wearing D.5.1.R.deslgned and made tracking transmitters.
The transmitters were developed by the D3.l.R.’s Physics and Engineering Laboratory, after an approach from the D.S.I.R.’s Ecology Division last year. Several hundred of the transmitters have been built since production began this year and about a quarter have gone to
Australia where they have been used on a variety of animals from wallabies to goannas. In New Zealand, they have been used on kiwis, possums, wild cats and other animals.
An Ecology Division spokesman, Mr Dave Ward, said that the “Sirtrack V-l” transmitters were electronically more
efficient than overseas counterparts. “It does a far better job than anything else we have used, and we have not had one failure in 80,000 transmitter days in the field,” he said. The transmitters are tailored to the requirements of the particular project, and can do more than just track the animals’ movements. The penguines, for example, are fitted with units that also monitor their temperature.
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Press, 3 December 1987, Page 46
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