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minus-squareShadowlinkfedilinkEnglish37•10 months 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-squareShadowlinkfedilinkEnglish10•edit-210 months 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-squareFuglyDucklinkEnglish1•10 months agoJust to put the smell in perspective…. Is it worse than a sack of spoiling potatoes?
minus-squareShadowlinkfedilinkEnglish1•10 months agoI’ve never smelled bad potatoes, but penguins eat mostly krill so just imagine tons of fishy poop
minus-squareFuglyDucklinkEnglish1•10 months 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-square@NihadofmaylinkEnglish0•10 months agoim fascinated by the fact that some people actually go to Antarctica
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•10 months agoyou don’t have to shout, we hear you well enough
minus-squareShadowlinkfedilinkEnglish4•10 months 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/