Biologging of emperor penguins – attachment techniques and associated deployment performance
International audience An increasing number of marine animals are equipped with biologgers, to study their physiology, behaviour and ecology, often for conservation purposes. To minimise the impacts of biologgers on the animals’ welfare, the Refinement principle from the Three Rs framework ( Replace...
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International audience An increasing number of marine animals are equipped with biologgers, to study their physiology, behaviour and ecology, often for conservation purposes. To minimise the impacts of biologgers on the animals’ welfare, the Refinement principle from the Three Rs framework ( Replacement, Reduction, Refinement ) urges to continuously test and evaluate new and updated biologging protocols. Here, we propose alternative and promising techniques for emperor penguin ( Aptenodytes forsteri ) capture and on-site logger deployment that aim to mitigate the potential negative impacts of logger deployment on these birds. We equipped adult emperor penguins for short-term (GPS, Time-Depth Recorder (TDR)) and long-term ( i . e . planned for one year) deployments (ARGOS platforms, TDR), as well as juvenile emperor penguins for long-term deployments (ARGOS platforms) in the Weddell Sea area where they had not yet been studied. We describe and qualitatively evaluate our protocols for the attachment of biologgers on-site at the colony, the capture of the animals and the recovery of the devices after deployment. We report unprecedented recaptures of long-term equipped adult emperor penguins (50% of equipped individuals recaptured after 290 days). Our data demonstrate that the traditional technique of long-term attachment by gluing the biologgers directly to the back feathers is detrimental to the birds. It causes excessive feather breakage and the loss of the devices at an early stage. We therefore propose an alternative method of attachment for back-mounted devices. This technique led to successful year-round deployments on 37.5% of the equipped juveniles. Finally, we also disclose the first deployments of leg-bracelet mounted TDRs on emperor penguins. Our findings highlight the importance of monitoring potential impacts of biologger deployments on the animals and the need to remain critical towards established and new protocols. |
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Houstin, Aymeric Zitterbart, Daniel Winterl, Alexander Richter, Sebastian Planas-Bielsa, Víctor Chevallier, Damien Ancel, André Fournier, Jérôme Fabry, Ben Le Bohec, Céline |
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Houstin, Aymeric Zitterbart, Daniel Winterl, Alexander Richter, Sebastian Planas-Bielsa, Víctor Chevallier, Damien Ancel, André Fournier, Jérôme Fabry, Ben Le Bohec, Céline |
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Biologging of emperor penguins – attachment techniques and associated deployment performance |
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Biologging of emperor penguins – attachment techniques and associated deployment performance |
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Biologging of emperor penguins – attachment techniques and associated deployment performance |
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Biologging of emperor penguins – attachment techniques and associated deployment performance |
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biologging of emperor penguins – attachment techniques and associated deployment performance |
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ftmuseumnhn:oai:HAL:hal-03409952v1 2024-04-28T08:03:34+00:00 Biologging of emperor penguins – attachment techniques and associated deployment performance Houstin, Aymeric Zitterbart, Daniel Winterl, Alexander Richter, Sebastian Planas-Bielsa, Víctor Chevallier, Damien Ancel, André Fournier, Jérôme Fabry, Ben Le Bohec, Céline Centre Scientifique de Monaco (CSM) Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg = University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU) Département Ecologie, Physiologie et Ethologie (DEPE-IPHC) Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (IPHC) Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) Mulhouse - Colmar (Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA))-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) Mulhouse - Colmar (Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA))-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Centre de Recherches sur la Biologie des Populations d'Oiseaux (CRBPO ) Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la COnservation (CESCO) Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) 2022 https://hal.science/hal-03409952 https://hal.science/hal-03409952/document https://hal.science/hal-03409952/file/Houstin_2021.pdf https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0265849 en eng HAL CCSD Public Library of Science info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0265849 hal-03409952 https://hal.science/hal-03409952 https://hal.science/hal-03409952/document https://hal.science/hal-03409952/file/Houstin_2021.pdf BIORXIV: 2021.06.08.446548 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0265849 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess ISSN: 1932-6203 EISSN: 1932-6203 PLoS ONE https://hal.science/hal-03409952 PLoS ONE, 2022, 17 (8), pp.e0265849. ⟨10.1371/journal.pone.0265849⟩ [SDV.BA.ZV]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Animal biology/Vertebrate Zoology [SDE.IE]Environmental Sciences/Environmental Engineering info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2022 ftmuseumnhn https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0265849 2024-04-17T23:58:29Z International audience An increasing number of marine animals are equipped with biologgers, to study their physiology, behaviour and ecology, often for conservation purposes. To minimise the impacts of biologgers on the animals’ welfare, the Refinement principle from the Three Rs framework ( Replacement, Reduction, Refinement ) urges to continuously test and evaluate new and updated biologging protocols. Here, we propose alternative and promising techniques for emperor penguin ( Aptenodytes forsteri ) capture and on-site logger deployment that aim to mitigate the potential negative impacts of logger deployment on these birds. We equipped adult emperor penguins for short-term (GPS, Time-Depth Recorder (TDR)) and long-term ( i . e . planned for one year) deployments (ARGOS platforms, TDR), as well as juvenile emperor penguins for long-term deployments (ARGOS platforms) in the Weddell Sea area where they had not yet been studied. We describe and qualitatively evaluate our protocols for the attachment of biologgers on-site at the colony, the capture of the animals and the recovery of the devices after deployment. We report unprecedented recaptures of long-term equipped adult emperor penguins (50% of equipped individuals recaptured after 290 days). Our data demonstrate that the traditional technique of long-term attachment by gluing the biologgers directly to the back feathers is detrimental to the birds. It causes excessive feather breakage and the loss of the devices at an early stage. We therefore propose an alternative method of attachment for back-mounted devices. This technique led to successful year-round deployments on 37.5% of the equipped juveniles. Finally, we also disclose the first deployments of leg-bracelet mounted TDRs on emperor penguins. Our findings highlight the importance of monitoring potential impacts of biologger deployments on the animals and the need to remain critical towards established and new protocols. Article in Journal/Newspaper Aptenodytes forsteri Emperor penguins Weddell Sea Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (MNHM): HAL PLOS ONE 17 8 e0265849 |