Scientists studying a colony of rare penguins on a remote South African island are using sophisticated object-recognition software to identify and track individual animals–an approach that they believe could transform conservation fieldwork. The software involved–originally developed for recognizing individual human faces–has developed rapidly in recent years. But so far, the so-called Penguin Recognition Project, run by Bristol University, in England, is the first large-scale attempt to use this technology to catalogue and monitor an entire population of animals in the field.
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