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minus-squareShadow@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up41·1 year agoDid you know that penguins have a special anus able to withstand a much higher psi than most animals? They need this so they can squirt their poop away from the egg they’re keeping warm. Of course there’s so many penguins in close proximity, this means they’re all covered in shit and smell bad.
minus-squarethatsTheCatch@lemmy.nzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 year agoThat last sentence is golden
minus-squareShadow@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·edit-21 year agoI have first hand experience of the smell, I was told this by a scientist on our way to Antarctica. Here’s the research paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.00926
minus-squareFuglyDuck@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoJust to put the smell in perspective…. Is it worse than a sack of spoiling potatoes?
minus-squareShadow@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·1 year agoI’ve never smelled bad potatoes, but penguins eat mostly krill so just imagine tons of fishy poop
minus-squareFuglyDuck@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoIt’s not a smell I can really recommend, let’s just say it’s the most, uh, memorable smell I’ve smelled. (Specifically cleaning dormitories over summer. Someone left a sack. Ac was turned off.)
minus-squareNihadofmay@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·1 year agoim fascinated by the fact that some people actually go to Antarctica
minus-squaregandalf_der_12te@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoyou don’t have to shout, we hear you well enough
minus-squareaͮͫͨ͋ͤͣ͌̏lex͒̃ͪ̃ͨ͛́͂ͪ͗̏ͫͮ̂@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoSubscribe penguin facts
minus-squareShadow@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoPenguins have very modern social habits. There’s been numerous instances of gay penguins, and they’ll even adopt any extra eggs. https://sites.tufts.edu/museumstudents/2021/02/22/whats-with-all-the-gay-penguins/
Did you know that penguins have a special anus able to withstand a much higher psi than most animals?
They need this so they can squirt their poop away from the egg they’re keeping warm.
Of course there’s so many penguins in close proximity, this means they’re all covered in shit and smell bad.
That last sentence is golden
I have first hand experience of the smell, I was told this by a scientist on our way to Antarctica.
Here’s the research paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.00926
Just to put the smell in perspective….
Is it worse than a sack of spoiling potatoes?
I’ve never smelled bad potatoes, but penguins eat mostly krill so just imagine tons of fishy poop
It’s not a smell I can really recommend, let’s just say it’s the most, uh, memorable smell I’ve smelled.
(Specifically cleaning dormitories over summer. Someone left a sack. Ac was turned off.)
im fascinated by the fact that some people actually go to Antarctica
you don’t have to shout, we hear you well enough
Subscribe penguin facts
Penguins have very modern social habits. There’s been numerous instances of gay penguins, and they’ll even adopt any extra eggs.
https://sites.tufts.edu/museumstudents/2021/02/22/whats-with-all-the-gay-penguins/