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• can@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You can’t just say something like that and not show us

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Making you guys read. Get learned. This is a science community!!

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    • JoMomma@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You’re not my PI!

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    • can@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Jokes on you I only looked at the pictures😤

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  • watersnipje@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    … who’s measuring the diameter of penguin buttholes?

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    • ehxor@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Grad students, obviously.

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    • RagingHungryPanda@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      what penguin had its butthole measured?

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    • uis@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Linuxoids

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• EunieIsTheBus@feddit.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Sorry, too lazy for a proper screenshot Ping

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• gofsckyourself@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Why “Pooh”? It’s not a bear. Why not “defecate”?

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  • stockRot@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s alliteration. If you continued reading, you can see that they have a much more professional title right underneath

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    • smeg@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      But it’s “poo” for a shit, “Pooh” is the bear

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  • Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Why not at least “poop”?

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• jerrythegenius@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Whose idea was this? Who paid for it?

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  • Carrolade@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Probably nobody. Study like this wouldn’t cost much, you’d just be reviewing footage of penguins looking for them to shit. Easy way to get an authorship credit.

    My guess anyway, I haven’t actually checked the methodology.

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    • snooggums@midwest.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Looks like it was a follow up to someone asking an entertaining question during a lecture, which is the best reason to do some science!

      According to Victor Benno Meyer-Rochow of the Research Institute of Luminous Organisms in Japan, a co-author of the original 2003 paper, these fecal findings all started with an expedition he led to Antarctica. Although he was collecting samples of local marine worms and tiny terrestrial insects called springworms for further study, he also took copious photographs of the many penguins in the region, which he used in his lectures. During a seminar at Kitasato University in Japan, a young woman asked about a slide showing a penguin brooding on its nest, wondering about the white and pink lines radiating outward. She interpreted them as “decoration” and asked how the penguins made them.

      “I explained that a penguin stands up, moves to the edge of its nest, turns around, lifts its tail, and then shoots from its rear, which leaves a 30-40 cm long streak of semi-liquid whitish stuff behind,” Meyer-Rochow wrote in a 2019 blog post. “Everybody laughed—with the exception of the questioner. She got red in her face and quietly sat down.” (The color of the feces depends on the penguin’s diet: if primarily fish, the poop is white. If the penguin has been feasting on krill, the poop takes on a pinkish hue.)

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    • Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Someone measured enough penguins to find the average butthole size though. I would NOT do that for free…

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  • mumblerfish@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They at least thank the “New Zealand Universiy Grant Committee”, so them maybe?

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• happybadger@hexbear.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The illustration from the full study: i.imgur.com/2sS64b6.png

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• BlastboomStrice@mander.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Ohhhh I remember reading on an encyclopedia about this research! I think it even won a prize, the most useless study of the hear or something.

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