{"id":3401,"date":"2014-11-02T13:12:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-02T18:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=3401"},"modified":"2014-11-02T13:12:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-02T18:12:00","slug":"robo-penguin-could-help-monitor-animal-movements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/robo-penguin-could-help-monitor-animal-movements\/","title":{"rendered":"Robo-penguin could help monitor animal movements"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3400\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/RoboPenguin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3400\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3400\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/RoboPenguin.jpg\" alt=\"A new study shows that a robotic rover disguised to look like a penguin can get close to animals  without raising their  stress response as much as a human would. Such rovers could be used to read electronic tags implanted in wild animals. (Photo credit: Le Maho, et. al)\" width=\"350\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/RoboPenguin.jpg 350w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/RoboPenguin-300x235.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3400\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A new study shows that a robotic rover disguised to look like a penguin can get close to animals without raising their stress response as much as a human would. Such rovers could be used to read electronic tags implanted in wild animals. (Photo credit: Le Maho, et. al)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A robotic rover disguised to look like a penguin has shown promise in helping to track animal movements.<\/p>\n<p>In some fields, such as fish farming, animals are implanted with passive integrated transponder (PIT-tags), a kind of electronic barcode that can be read by a hand-held device at a distance of up to 2 feet. However, wild animals can be stressed when humans approach that close.<\/p>\n<p>The new study shows that the stress response (measured by heart rate) when a robotic rover approached a penguin is less than when a human approaches, and the rover causes less disorganization of the colony. The less invasive method could also be used to approach other animals that are wary of humans, such as southern elephant seals.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span>\u00a0published in the\u00a0<em>Journal of Sexual Medicine\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>November 2, 2014<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Yvon Le Maho, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A robotic rover disguised to look like a penguin has shown promise in helping to track animal movements. In some fields, such as fish farming, animals are implanted with passive integrated transponder (PIT-tags), a kind of electronic barcode that can be read by a hand-held device at a distance of up to 2 feet. However, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3400,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[39,113,1445],"class_list":["post-3401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-animal-behaviour","tag-biology","tag-conservation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/RoboPenguin.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-SR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3402,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3401\/revisions\/3402"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}