SJSU Research Examines How Climate Change Impacts Emperor Penguins

Researchers from San Jose State University are in Antarctica studying emperor penguins and how climate change is affecting them.

“The birds are doing very different things” said Birgitte McDonald with SJSU’s Moss Landing Marine Labs. “And they’re traveling further than we thought they would.”

The researchers are examining how the penguins get their food and if that changes with a receding ice shelf, could they survive and continue to reproduce.

“If we want to see how they respond to environmental change, we need to know where they go to find food and how hard they work to get there,” McDonald said.

The team slowly surrounds each bird and wraps

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