The science behind penguin poop!!
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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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by AvastMH moderator
Did you see that brilliant picture the other day showing a poop-action shot? http://talk.penguinwatch.org/#/subjects/APZ0002ttd
Timing! 😃Posted