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- [David] Newly released
footage taken off the coast

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of Argentina offers an unprecedented

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and chaotic first-person
view of a gentoo penguin

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as it forages for sardines and other fish

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in the Beagle Channel of Isla Martillo.

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Researchers with the Wildlife
Conservation Society,

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along with its partners,
strapped a penguin-cam

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to the back of a male penguin in an effort

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to learn more about their feeding ecology,

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findings which could help

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to preserve these and other penguins.

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The resulting footage shows

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the agile penguin charging
repeatedly through shoals

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of sardines and successfully coming out

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with a fish or two in its mouth,

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but as the video also shows,
the sardines had to evade,

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not just the gentoo penguins,
but also diving cormorants

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and albatrosses who are, likewise,

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reliant on these small fish.

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The team safely removed the penguin-cam

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from the penguin's back after
a single foraging session,

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and they closely monitored
the semi-aquatic bird

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to make sure he was okay.

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Conservationists will
now study this footage

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and compare it to the feeding ecology

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of yellow, white penguins
from New Zealand.

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