Poop of the Penguins
June 8, 2009
Scientists have found it difficult to track the migrating patterns of Emperor penguins, made famous in the documentary March of the Penguins, during the harsh Antarctic winters. Researchers at the British Antarctic Survey were reviewing satellite photos and noticed reddish-brown stains in the pure, colorless ice. They realized that these stains were caused by the guano (or fecal matter) from colonies of Emperor penguins spending months in the same place. Peter Fretwell documents this in his paper “Penguins From Space” that will appear in Global Ecology and Biogeography.
Emperor Penguins migrate as part of a troop
But where they go, scientists are not in the loop
But they have learned to trace
The birds’ movement from space
And a new journal article gives us the poop
Tags: Emperor penguins, Global Ecology and Biogeography, guano, March of the Penguins, Peter Fretwell
Posted on: June 8, 2009
Filed under: Just For Fun
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DBT
June 8th, 2009 at 8:50 am
awwww….
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