九乡新闻网舰队collectione3削甲:Tagged Penguins 带标记企鹅健康受影响
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By Richard Black, BBC News
The king penguin is the second largest species
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Background: 生物学家多年来一直通过给企鹅做标记的方法来监视企鹅的行踪。法国科学家近日指出，此举动不仅会给企鹅的健康带来危害，而且还对已收集到的有关气候变化的数据产生质疑。
For decades scientists have been following penguins by putting bands around their flippers .
This allows individual birds to be identified at a distance.
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But there have been concerns that flipper bands might harm the birds by slowing them down as they swim.
The latest study, reported in the journal Nature, confirms it. Scientists from Strasbourg University followed a colony of king penguins for ten years.
Birds fitted with bands died younger, started breeding later in the year, took longer to forage for food and over all raised about 40 per cent fewer chicks .
The researchers suggest that using flipper bands would now be unethical in most situations.
Scientists in the field would now have to find other taggingmethods but in the meantime there are also concerns that some datagathered on penguins down the years, in this ecological crucial part ofthe planet, may now be worthless .
Glossary 词汇表 (收听发音, 请单击英语单词)- band（用来做标记的）细带子
- flipper鳍状肢
- concerns担忧，担心
- to harm危害，伤害
- colony群体
- to breed生育，繁殖
- chick小企鹅
- unethical不道德的
- tagging标记
- worthless无价值的