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  • DZM by DZM admin

    Penguins use poo to melt snow

    Call it landscaping the penguin way: time-lapse footage from a colony
    of Antarctic Gentoo penguins appears to show the birds using their
    feces to melt snow in their breeding grounds. The images — captured by
    the University of Oxford's Penguin Watch initiative — show the snow
    piling up before the penguins arrive, ready to breed. They quickly
    blanket the area with what looks like mud (here's a clue: it's not
    mud) and lo, the snow begins to melt...

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  • AvastMH by AvastMH moderator

    That just is amazing DZM! Makes you wonder if this is happy perchance - or by some penguin design. Just as well krill are red. 😃

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  • yshish by yshish moderator, translator

    😃

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  • gardenmaeve by gardenmaeve moderator

    As in this photo, perhaps. http://talk.penguinwatch.org/#/subjects/APZ0003sls

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