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Effects of artificial lights for ecotourism on little penguins
Wildlife watching is an emerging ecotourism activity around the world. In Australia and New Zealand, night viewing of little penguins attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors per year. As...
Waddling on the dark side: ambient light affects attendance behavior of little penguins
The little penguin is the smallest and the only penguin species whose activity on land is strictly nocturnal. Thirteen years of attendance data were used to study the effects of sun, moon, and...
The role of ocean currents as a link between marine organisms and environmental variability
In this work, authors suggest that ocean currents may play a relevant role in determining the actual spatio-temporal scale under which reproductive timing in a marine predator, the Little penguin,...