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Penguins shoot 'poop bombs' more than 4 feet, incredibly important study finds
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2020 Jul 10, 7:06am 1,232 views 6 comments
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just_passing_through
2020 Jul 10, 7:09am
just_passing_through
2020 Jul 10, 7:09am
This is equivalent to AF eating some yams and face then bending over and shooting the proceeds 10ft!
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Tenpoundbass
2020 Jul 10, 10:54am
Tenpoundbass
2020 Jul 10, 10:54am
just_adhom_preaching says
It's a defense mechanism to keep Blue Footed Boobies and other predators from eating their young. They aim for the eyes, it's highly acidic and sticky, and birds don't have the best methods for cleaning their eyes.
Yeeeuck!
It's a defense mechanism to keep Blue Footed Boobies and other predators from eating their young. They aim for the eyes, it's highly acidic and sticky, and birds don't have the best methods for cleaning their eyes.
If the Olympics awarded medals for long-distance pooping, penguins would take home the gold.
These tubby, aquatic birds can squirt arcing jets of poop to distances nearly twice their own body length, and scientists recently calculated just how much force their tiny rectums produce in order to do so — and how far the poop can fly.
https://www.livescience.com/pengins-projectile-poo.html