Subject: APZ0009bds

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• by Dealbata

  What a nice orderly colony. Some of the others could take a leaf out of their book!

  Posted May 26, 2016 6:34 AM

• by AvastMH moderator

  😄 I think that there is some maths formula that says that this sort of pattern forms 😃

  Posted May 26, 2016 7:34 PM

• by ggm02

  Are penguins magnetic by any chance?! 😄

  Posted May 26, 2016 8:30 PM

• by yshish moderator, translator

  Haha, nope, but they tend to be heading to the same direction as everyone else in the colony. It corresponds to the weather conditions.

  Posted May 26, 2016 9:11 PM

• by ggm02

  Yeah, figured it would be something like that - face the sun and turn their backs to the wind whenever possible?

  Posted May 26, 2016 9:17 PM

• by AvastMH moderator

  Might be - but with their backs being black it might be backs to the sun? On a dull day it's backs to the wind for sure 😃

  Posted May 26, 2016 9:42 PM

• by ggm02

  Indeed, backs to the sun when it's too warm, front to the sun when it's cold.

  Posted May 27, 2016 8:45 AM

• by gardenmaeve moderator

  I see there are differences of opinion among the penguins. 😉
  (Black backs to sun > get warmer.) I wish we could plant little windsocks in view of each camera.

  Posted May 27, 2016 10:46 AM

• by gardenmaeve moderator

  Lots of varying directions the next afternoon: https://talk.penguinwatch.org/#/subjects/APZ0009bdr

  Posted May 27, 2016 11:16 AM

• by ggm02

  Well some birds can navigate using magnetic fields, so who is to say these aren't lined up the same way?! More investigation needed!

  Posted May 27, 2016 2:06 PM

• by gardenmaeve moderator

  "...who is to say..." perhaps the scientists studying them? 😄

  Posted May 27, 2016 2:18 PM