PENGUINS are talented birds. They not only survive extreme temperatures, waddle vast distances and dive to extraordinary depths, it has emerged that they are one of nature’s super-poopers. The birds are capable of expelling their faeces with extreme force, helping them avoid fouling both their feathers and their nests.
Researchers are forbidden from coming within 5 metres of chinstrap and Adélie penguins. So Victor Benno Meyer-Rochow and Jozsef Gal of International University Bremen in Germany took on the unenviable task of studying penguin pooping by observing and photographing the birds from a distance.
They found that the birds point…
