Penguins' private lives recorded in Antarctica
Sunday, January 6, 2013 - 17:00
in Psychology & Sociology
Suppose someone monitors your whole life, from the moment you were born through childhood, puberty, adolescence and your midlife crisis, all the way to your ultimate death — recording what you eat, where you go, who you make love to, when you raise children and how your body ages. Pretty scary, right? But that's exactly what biologist David Ainley is doing. Not with humans, but with Adélie penguins in Antarctica.