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[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 41 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] thatsTheCatch@lemmy.nz 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That last sentence is golden

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

I 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

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Just to put the smell in perspective….

Is it worse than a sack of spoiling potatoes?

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I've never smelled bad potatoes, but penguins eat mostly krill so just imagine tons of fishy poop

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

It’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.)

[–] Nihadofmay@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

im fascinated by the fact that some people actually go to Antarctica

[–] gandalf_der_12te@feddit.de 1 points 8 months ago

you don't have to shout, we hear you well enough

[–] aeharding@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 4 points 8 months ago

Penguins 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/

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago (3 children)

so.... got any weird and gross facts about the weather?

[–] moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

if you cover yourself in oil and then go out in the rain you can fly

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Instructions unclear. Got arrested for streaking.

[–] moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 8 months ago

I never said to get naked first shrug

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

Floods aren't just water but also everything the water picks up in the process of flooding, which is pretty much everything in its path, including the contents of things normally kept in water below ground. And if you think it's bad for humans needing to cross through flood waters (or stuck in them), think about the fish that have to live in water but now it's mixed with all the gross land animal stuff in addition to the normal gross water animal stuff.

[–] Nihadofmay@lemmy.world -3 points 8 months ago

if u hold ru poop for a month are sprint u run on the water

[–] BrokenGlepnir@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Give me your grossest animal fact

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 24 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Koalas poop in their babies' mouths to feed them

[–] sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 25 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

No they don't

Edit: omg they do what the fuck

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] perishthethought@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Oh gawd. Why am I reading these?

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

This is why I tried to steer the conversation to the weather.

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 8 months ago

When a mother hyena gives birth, she squeezes the pups out of her massive cock. This is horribly painful and will sometimes result in her cock exploding or ripping off.

[–] herrvogel@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Dolphins are very rapey. Bunch of males sometimes get together and gang-rape a female for hours.

[–] Nihadofmay@lemmy.world -1 points 8 months ago

~~that explain their high iq~~

[–] Nihadofmay@lemmy.world -2 points 8 months ago

^that explains their iq

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's the same for me. Except the stick says "long, uncomfortable silence."

[–] rozwud@beehaw.org 1 points 8 months ago

I just try to be comfortable with the silence; if they're uncomfortable that's on them.

[–] Matriks404@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

More older I am, more I think that I have some brain damage as for social interactions. It always feel like I am overthinking how should I react in most instances, when for other people it's probably more natural. Although I must say that people tend to be always smiling or being nice around me for some reason, and to be honest I don't get it.