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March of the Penguin Researchers
Topic Started: Feb 2 2007, 11:56 PM (54 Views)
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March of the Penguin Researchers
By John Tierney

In the icy annals of emperor-penguin research, Apsley Cherry-Garrard has been one-upped.

The British explorer described his research project as “The Worst Journey in the World,” a memoir that has become a classic of the explornography genre. In his 1911 quest to retrieve eggs from an emperor penguin rookery, Cherry-Garrard trekked through the Antarctic winter with temperatures of -70 degrees Fahrenheit.

He lost his tent (and, he assumed, any prospect of surviving) when it was blown away during a blizzard by hurricane-force winds. The tent was miraculously found afterwards, and he survived to bring the eggs back to the Natural History Museum in London.

It was a heroic achievement. But for all that Cherry-Garrard endured in that dark, frigid winter, he never, to the best of my knowledge, attempted to measure the rectal temperature of an emperor penguin.

It remained for future researchers to accomplish that feat — and more. They also performed field surgery on an emperor penguin. By taking both the rectal and the core temperatures of emperor penguins at the rookery, they’ve learned the penguins’ secret for surviving the winter without a tent.

http://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/
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Reminds me of my great uncle Ludwig and his polar bear studies.
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Hi jezzie and Time:

The movie "March Of The Penguins" was brilliant and I loved it. This info, is very interesting.........brrrr.
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