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ID tags handicap penguins
Email: John Whitfield - ja_whitfield@hotmail.com News from The Scientist 2004, 5(1):20040519-02
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The identification bands that researchers put on penguins' flippers seriously handicap the birds, according to research published online by a team of ecologists this week in Proceedings of the Royal Society B. In a sort of Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle for ecology, the findings suggest that the results of some studies could be unreliable and may mean that work on endangered penguin species is harming the animals it is trying to save, said authors of the study.
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