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Penguins on treadmills help reveal over-fishing 2

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Uploaded by on May 10, 2007

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Lewis Halsey and his colleagues have carried out previous experiments where they got king penguins to exercise on a treadmill, so they could determine how much energy the penguins need to expend in order to maintain different heart rates.
Watch this video of a king penguin on a treadmill

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  • Thats so cruel.

    They should have given it the option to stop, not force it to keep walking!

  • lol

  • Hey hey! Looks to me that that penguin can't stop running if it wanted to! Is it trapped in a box?! Sure it's for science, and I love science, but you better give that penguin a fish!!

  • lol

  • that's bloody mean!!!!

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