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OP - February 16, 2013, 09:42 PM

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New Antarctic penguin colony found from space

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A new colony of 9,000 penguins has been discovered in eastern Antarctica after their massive trail of poo was viewed from space.

Alain Hubert, who led the expedition that found the colony, said the penguins had never seen humans before and weren't scared at all when he and two of his colleagues made initial contact in December.

"They just start to come around us, surrounding us, just looking at us," he told As It Happens Tuesday. "I was not sure I was still on Earth."

Hubert, founder of the International Polar Foundation, a group that communicates research about Antarctica, decided to hunt for the birds after satellite images from the British Antarctic Survey suggested there was a colony in the little-explored part of Antarctica close to Princess Elisabeth Station, which was built just four years ago.

After three hours of searching among the crevasses and ice shelves, the explorers spotted the birds in the distance. After two more hours of walking, they arrived, under the midnight sun of an Antarctic summer.

Not sure I'd want to go looking for them, if their pile of penguin poo is big enough to be seen from space.

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Reply #1 - February 16, 2013, 09:53 PM

Lmao.
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Reply #2 - February 16, 2013, 11:35 PM

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They just start to come around us, surrounding us, just looking at us,"

Penguins always seem to do that for some reason. I've seen them at various zoos and safari parks and its comical, you don't know who's the exhibit and who's the visitor - the penguins all line up and stare fixedly at the people lined up staring at them.

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Reply #3 - February 16, 2013, 11:47 PM

Not sure if anyone saw this. Penguins are pretty interesting little dudes:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18370797
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Reply #4 - February 17, 2013, 04:22 AM

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"What is happening there is not in any way analogous to necrophilia in the human context," Mr Russell said. "It is the males seeing the positioning that is causing them to have a sexual reaction.

"They are not distinguishing between live females who are awaiting congress in the colony, and dead penguins from the previous year which just happen to be in the same position."

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Seriously dude, I don't know what is wrong with her. She was like totally asking for it, then she just lies there like a sack of meat.

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Reply #5 - February 17, 2013, 06:17 AM

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Are you sure I should mate with her? I mean I'm pretty sure the whole damn colony's put a load in her. How do I know the kid will be mine? Will she lay the egg bent over like that?
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