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!
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by AvastMH moderator
😄 I think that there is some maths formula that says that this sort of pattern forms 😃
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by ggm02
Are penguins magnetic by any chance?! 😄
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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.
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by ggm02
Yeah, figured it would be something like that - face the sun and turn their backs to the wind whenever possible?
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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 😃
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by ggm02
Indeed, backs to the sun when it's too warm, front to the sun when it's cold.
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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
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by gardenmaeve moderator
Lots of varying directions the next afternoon: https://talk.penguinwatch.org/#/subjects/APZ0009bdr
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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!
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by gardenmaeve moderator
"...who is to say..." perhaps the scientists studying them? 😄
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