Date: 15 November 2022, Time: 14:00 GMT, 15:00 CET, 19:30 IST

In this 4th lecture of the IUBS webinar series, Yvon Le Maho will discuss the “New technology to investigate Antarctic penguins without disturbance“. Renuka Badhe will be moderating the session.

This webinar will be hosted on Zoom. Please use the link below to register for this event:

https://bit.ly/100IUBS-YvonLeMaho

YouTube link: https://youtu.be/ZSEhekiSNCk

There is no registration fee to attend the webinar. 

Yvon Le Maho, a well-known ecophysiologist, has pioneered RadioFrequencyIDentification and robotics to investigate penguins in their natural environment while minimising human disturbance in fieldwork and therefore avoiding subsequent scientific biases. Among those physiological mechanisms that were discovered by his team, a major finding is the demonstration that male king penguins are able to preserve food for 2-3 weeks at 37°C in their stomach, which allows them to feed the newly hatched chick if the female has been delayed. An antibiotic molecule is involved, which appears of biomedical interest. Yvon Le Maho is an author/co-author of more than 300 scientific papers, including 12 in Nature magazine and specialized Nature journals.

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