South Africa: French Scientists Study How Gannets Dance Their Way to Dinner

A team of scientists has discovered that endangered Cape gannets, which live and breed in large colonies in southern Africa, use unique dances that could show mates and neighbours where to find food.

French scientists Nicolas Courbin and David Grémillet from the University of Montpellier and their team gathered data over four seasons on Malgas, a tiny flat round island at the mouth of South Africa's Saldanha Bay that is home to around 19,000 breeding pairs of Cape gannet.

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