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• by coldcounter

  OK Crazy Question Time : look at the size of the feet on the two front pengs. One pair are much longer than the other. Is this a difference

  Posted July 23, 2015 4:02 PM

• by coldcounter

  between the sexes? Or what? Seems strange that the the foot length is so different.... ???

  Posted July 23, 2015 4:03 PM

• by Motherjoanne

  Interesting. Who's been nibbling on penguin toes?

  Posted July 23, 2015 4:29 PM

• by AvastMH moderator

  They do look different. I'll measure them up. Never heard of that sort of difference between the sexes...but I'll try to hunt

  Posted July 23, 2015 4:42 PM

• by AvastMH moderator

  out an answer folks 😃

  Posted July 23, 2015 4:42 PM

• by yshish moderator, translator

  Yes,there are some small size differences of body parts between both sexes as well as between Northern(bigger) and Southern(smaller) Gentoos

  Posted July 23, 2015 5:17 PM

• by AvastMH moderator

  oh! great information yshish! Very interesting. I know that some garden birds have bigger females than males simply to aid egg laying 😃

  Posted July 23, 2015 5:32 PM

• by yshish moderator, translator

  I actually haven't find any evidence about a foot length differences yet. They measure the whole body length, the bill, flippers, tail.

  Posted July 23, 2015 5:49 PM

• by yshish moderator, translator

  And then the 'tarsus' length, which I thought is the part above the foot. But I may be wrong!

  Posted July 23, 2015 5:53 PM

• by yshish moderator, translator

  Well, here it is! https://fossilpenguins.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/tour-of-the-penguin-skeleton.jpg (The ankle bone! 😃)

  Posted July 23, 2015 5:56 PM

• by AvastMH moderator

  That's an amazing picture - really good info! 😃

  Posted July 23, 2015 11:45 PM

• by coldcounter

  Think I will have to ask more crazy questions .... so much great information comes back to us from you all ... I should be marking and I am

  Posted July 24, 2015 5:59 AM

• by coldcounter

  off reading a scientific paper, checking out a cool image of the standard penguin, looking at vidoes & other stuff. Wonderful exchange!! 😃

  Posted July 24, 2015 6:00 AM

• by AvastMH moderator

  Well I reckon that's all fair coldcounter. This is all voluntary, the only benefit you can reap is to see beautiful creatures in a

  Posted July 24, 2015 5:01 PM

• by AvastMH moderator

  beautiful environment, enjoy the community of other volunteers, and last but by no means least, indulge in learning more about the

  Posted July 24, 2015 5:01 PM

• by AvastMH moderator

  world we live in. AND you're helping scientists from one of the finest universities in the world to change the status of Antarctic waters to

  Posted July 24, 2015 5:01 PM

• by AvastMH moderator

  protect one of our fellow travellers on this weird and wonderful third-planet-from-the-sun. (Being part of the Zooniverse makes

  Posted July 24, 2015 5:01 PM

• by AvastMH moderator

  me burst with pride..can you tell? 😉 )

  Posted July 24, 2015 5:01 PM

• by coldcounter

  Couldn't half tell .... but you are exactly right. I am also part of an online team (less than 200 people) that are marking and eradicating

  Posted July 25, 2015 12:55 AM

• by coldcounter

  noxious rubber vine that strangles and poisons in the Kimberley in West Australia ... important work there but an onground team of FOUR

  Posted July 25, 2015 12:56 AM

• by coldcounter

  with our help are eradicating it from a 30km square region !! and all volunteers !!! (my other hobby horse!)

  Posted July 25, 2015 12:57 AM

• by AvastMH moderator

  Cor! that's amazing coldcounter 😄 Good on'ya! #dailyzoo. What our brilliant volunteers get up to!

  Posted July 26, 2015 1:25 AM