Penguins: No Fail at Mealtime | National Geographic

cameras mounted on the backs of
free-swimming a daily penguins
showed just how good the seabirds are at
catching their food the Penguins had a
100% success rate never missing prey on
video recorded dives in this video the
penguin is catching a fish near the
Antarctic ice here it’s catching an
alpha pod and here catching krill a
daily penguins live on the Antarctic
continent and surrounding coastal
islands and while they have been
photographed and studied above-ground
for many years not much research has
been done on their feeding behaviors in
the oceans Japanese researchers working
in Antarctica SLUSA home Bay use cameras
on 14 penguins backs along with
accelerometers mounted on their heads
and backs they observed the Penguins
eating mostly krill in the open ocean
waters but catching fish near the
surface under the ice in their research
paper published by PNAS January 21st
they cite a study done using National
Geographic critter cams on emperor
penguins in Antarctica with similar
feeding behaviors time limits on video
recording minimises image collection so
the accelerometers were used to track
the Penguins for longer periods of time
using both methods the researchers found
the Penguins could catch up to two krill
per second and up to 14 fish every 20
seconds and despite the fish and krills
fast escape movement the Penguins have a
way of turning their heads at the last
second as a means of striking and
catching their meal
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