For ecologists, the greatest
challenge is to observe the behavior of the animals in their natural habitats
without disturbing them, but recently biologists got away with this classical
challenge by incorporating a baby penguin robotic spy, Designed and developed
by Yvon Le Maho of the University of Strasbourg in France this remote controlled rover turns out to be a great substitute for intrusive
human observers.
As Emperor penguins are not
habitual to human intervention in their natural habitats, running away from
them is quite natural thus preventing the scientist and observers from noting
down some critical parameters like, hearty rate, health body temperature and other
parameters of penguin.
The first version of rover made
of fiber glass and did not scare the real birds. In the first attempt, the
scientists sent the four-wheeled rover
into the colony, Strangely, the penguins permitted the rover to get near, and
their heart rates increased less and reverted to regular more quickly than when
the identical chore was done by a scientists with a hand-held device.
Upon halt, the rover—unlike
humans—did not muddle colony assembly, and strain swiftly ceased, thus, rovers
can diminish human commotion of wild animals and the resulting systematic bias.
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