To sea with the penguin

Radioisotope techniques are helping to reveal many unknown factors in the Jackass Penguin's marine ecology, vital to the preservation of a species endemic to South Africa and whose population is diminishing at an alarming rate. The radioisotope chosen was phosphorous-32. The development of a cheap, small, easy to fabricate depth gauge and velocity gauge reported here enables some aspects of the marine behaviour of the penguin to be studied