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The science behind penguin poop!!

  • Nickypeng by Nickypeng moderator

    In 2005 Victor Meyer-Rochow (from Germany) and Jozsef Gal (Hungary) won the Ig Nobel Prize in fluid dynamics for using basic principles of physics to calculate the pressure that builds up inside a defaecating penguin.

    Their report "Pressures Produced When Penguins Pooh -- Calculations on Avian Defaecation" was published in the journal Polar Biology in 2003

    No wonder they (the penguins, I mean) can create such elaborate art!

    If you are not familiar with the Ig Nobel prizes, have a look, it is well worth it.

    And although today is the first of April, this is NOT an April Fools Joke - the paper was published in 2003

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  • AvastMH by AvastMH moderator

    Did you see that brilliant picture the other day showing a poop-action shot? http://talk.penguinwatch.org/#/subjects/APZ0002ttd
    Timing! 😃

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