A remote-controlled observatory for behavioural and ecological research: A case study on emperor penguins

• Published in: Methods in Ecology and Evolution
• Main Authors: Richter, Sebastian, Gerum, Richard, Schneider, Werner, Fabry, Ben, Le Bohec, Céline, Zitterbart, Daniel
• Other Authors: Biophysics Group Friedrich-Alexander University, Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (IPHC), Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Département de Biologie Polaire
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2018
• Subjects: emperor penguin; remote-controlled observatory; time-lapse and video recording; Antarctica; behaviour; animal colony; [SDE]Environmental Sciences; Antarctic; Atka; Neumayer; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Aptenodytes forsteri; Emperor penguins
• Online Access: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01721453; https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.12971

International audience 1. Long-term photographic recordings of animal populations provide unique insights in ecological and evolutionary processes. However, image acquisition at remote locations under harsh climatic conditions is highly challenging.2. We present a robust, energetically self-sufficie...