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Did you know that penguins have a special anus able to withstand a much higher psi than most animals?
They need this so they can squirt their poop away from the egg they're keeping warm.
Of course there's so many penguins in close proximity, this means they're all covered in shit and smell bad.
40 0 ReplyThat last sentence is golden
7 0 ReplyI have first hand experience of the smell, I was told this by a scientist on our way to Antarctica.
Here's the research paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.00926
11 0 Reply2 0 Replyim fascinated by the fact that some people actually go to Antarctica
1 0 Replyyou don't have to shout, we hear you well enough
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Just to put the smell in perspective….
Is it worse than a sack of spoiling potatoes?
1 0 ReplyI've never smelled bad potatoes, but penguins eat mostly krill so just imagine tons of fishy poop
2 0 ReplyIt’s not a smell I can really recommend, let’s just say it’s the most, uh, memorable smell I’ve smelled.
(Specifically cleaning dormitories over summer. Someone left a sack. Ac was turned off.)
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3 0 ReplyPenguins have very modern social habits. There's been numerous instances of gay penguins, and they'll even adopt any extra eggs.
https://sites.tufts.edu/museumstudents/2021/02/22/whats-with-all-the-gay-penguins/
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