Scientists who study wild animals want to get as close as possible to their subjects without stressing them out or disrupting their natural behaviors.

[T]he researchers disguised the rover as a penguin chick and sent it into a colony of notoriously shy emperor penguins. The birds allowed it to approach and in one case even infiltrate a creche of chicks.

I’m going to argue this qualifies as a parenting fail by said emperor penguins.

Photo by Frederique Olivier/John Downer Productions, Le Maho, et. al., Nature Methods.
Via Wired.