Tagging Adorable, Nasty Little Penguins | Best Job Ever

less than 1m read

·Nov 11, 2024

One of the most consistent comments that I get is how adorable chinstrap penguins are. But every time you get near them, the very first thing that they do is projectile poop. They're cantankerous; they tend to be very aggressive and just eat the food out of each other for seemingly no reason.

Right now, we're putting radio tags on the penguins to track when the penguins go out to find food and when they come back. So, if it's taking them a very long time, it means that conditions out there are not very good. That type of information can help set commercial fishing limits and keep the ecosystem healthy for all of these animals.

Once we're finished, we'll take them back to their colony, and they'll be released and totally free to go back to beating their neighbors or pooping out things. But as much as I complain about them, any day that I am out working with penguins is a really, really wonderful day to be able to make sure that they're all healthy.

First, seal pups are tiny, but they are ferocious in their own right.

last words

YC Alumni Lightning Round

View All

The 5 Step Process for Getting What You Want From Life

Like I say, you can have practically anything you want in life, but you can’t have everything you want in life. So that means you have to prioritize what are the things you’re going after. That has to do with the earlier part of, you know, know what you’r…

How to Make an Elephant Explode – The Size of Life 2

Let’s shrink an elephant to the size of a mouse and enlarge a mouse, and make it the size of an elephant, because this is our video, and we want to see what happens. First, our now tiny elephant stumbles around and then drops dead. Tiny elephant buddy is …

Why Einstein Thought Nuclear Weapons Were Impossible

Now that we have nuclear weapons and nuclear power plants, you might think that it was always inevitable that we would be able to harness the energy inside the nucleus of atoms. But that was far from the case. In fact, serious scientists thought the idea …

Welcome to Earth | Official Trailer #2 - Audio Description | Disney+

A volcano erupts. I’m throwing myself into the unknown. I almost guarantee you’re gonna survive. All right, a six-part Disney Plus original series. There’s a new breed of explorers taking knee to the ends of the Earth to discover hidden worlds that sit b…

The Mind-Blowing Machines that Stamp Millions of Metal Parts - Smarter Every Day 288

That was the moment when you could see everything and understand what’s happening. It’s a hard manufacturing process to describe. I’ve tried to describe it to people in five minutes or less and you just can’t. You can’t. Hey, it’s me, Destin, and welcome…

Using arithmetic sequences formulas | Mathematics I | High School Math | Khan Academy

All right, we’re told that the arithmetic sequence ( ai ) is defined by the formula where the ( i )-th term in the sequence is going to be ( 4 + 3 \cdot (i - 1) ). What is ( a{20} )? So, ( a{20} ) is the 20th term in the sequence, and I encourage you to …

Tagging Adorable, Nasty Little Penguins | Best Job Ever

More Articles