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Penguins shoot 'poop bombs' more than 4 feet, important study finds

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When Bald Eagles were more endangered, they had school presentations where they'd bring in one for the kids to see. The one I met had been severely injured and was cared for by a gentleman working for the US Forest Service (iirc) and they had a reasonable set of accommodations for each other, eagle wasn't happy about havin just one use-able wing but he understood this person helped him and this was what they did. Go see school gymnasiums full of loud kids.

The eagle's big "trick" was long range, high accuracy defecation. Given prompting (or just at whim) he'd turn around and nail a basketball backboard across the court with a shot of shit. Full court. Perfect ballistic arc. Big weighty splat.

He was obviously proud of the ability (who wouldn't be?) and appreciated the celebration and merriment it caused. Birds don't think much like we do, but some things are universal.

The new mascot for the baseball team that we never knew that we wanted but have waited all our lives for it.

If we could only convince teenagers to use less weapons and more weapenguins in schools would be a incredibly useful study.

Bird: "Don't forget to like and subscribe!"

> but some things are universal.

Thankfully, judging by the uptick count of this topic, not important studies about bird defecation range.

That reminds me of a visit to the Berlin Zoo about 15 years ago. Some teenagers were harassing a leopard. Once it had had enough, it projectile-peed through the bars, right on to them.

I laughed.

That's awesome. I love how distinct cat piss smells. It's so potent!

The scatology of penguins seem to be a topic of enduring interest on HN.

Calculating the true pressure required to propel penguin feces https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23790076

Projectile Trajectory of Penguin's Faeces and Rectal Pressure Revisited https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23739540

Antarctic penguins release an extreme amount of laughing gas in their feces https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23241768

Sadly no discussion on those threads.

And this is how they are able to swim so fast, as somebody will discover in the future.

Not being snarky here, genuinely curious - how does one decide to research the topic of poop distance? And why?

> poop distance?

Excuse me, I think you mean Defection Ballistics?

Excuse me, I think you mean Defecation Ballistics?

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