The GCW Tour, Buenos Aires & Antarctica: What Do You Do with a Penguin Infestation?

I haven't been able to hunt down our ship's official ornithologist to ask the question, but today I was struck by a puzzle: given that penguins are protected and all that, what do you do when where you live becomes the location of a penguin infestation?

The Fram's path today took us past that abandoned Chilean science station. Turns out, people don't start to occupy it until after Christmas. But check out some of the pictures. How on earth do you get that many penguins to make some space without violating any of the rules about what you can do to them?

I can't say I'd be looking forward to my arrival if I was a Chilean scientist.

Which reminds me of a story we heard today about a different Chilean science station we passed. We didn't get close enough to get pictures, but it was explained that the station had been abandoned twenty or so years ago due to fire. Not the "oh no! there's a fire! someone find a fire extinquisher" sort of fire, but the "I'm not staying here another winter so hand me the gasoline" sort of fire. The leader of the group apparently burned the station to the ground so he wouldn't have to stay there any longer.

And people say scientists are boring. Anyway, here's some scenery from the cruise, including a few shots of a Chilean science station overrun by penguins...