Notes

These cute little penguins are now helping human scientists with a very important study! These little penguin researchers live here on Phillip Island in Victoria. It's an area where sea temperatures are rising faster than anywhere else in the world. So scientists these unsuspecting helpers to collect data that would be impossible to get any other way. Taking samples is so difficult and it's a big area to cover. So we use these birds who know where to go and what to look for. These birds save there time and effort of doing it. To see exactly what they are up to researchers are attaching GPS trackers to them along with activity trackers the sort of thing what we were. They put GPS and a activity tracker to measure how much energy they're using. There aim is to find out about how climate change is affecting our oceans. By tracking them scientists are trying to discover if the penguins are changing their habits as water temperatures rise. What they'v find out is surprising that these little guys are eating a lot of jelly fish. That could mean other types of fish aren't as easy to find right now. And there's a penguin-sized bridge which scans each one as they walk over it. It records which penguin's which when they leave home, come back and how much they weigh. That helps scientists work out how much the penguins are eating.