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Robots can be used to detect marked animals with less disturbance when assessing ecological drivers of population change.

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Figure 1: RFID technology aids understanding of penguin population processes.

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  1. Louise Emmerson is in the Australian Antarctic Division, Kingston, Tasmania, Australia.

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  1. Philip N. Trathan is at the British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council, Cambridge, UK.,

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Trathan, P., Emmerson, L. Animal identification with robot rovers. Nat Methods 11, 1217–1218 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.3195

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