Shit Shooting Penguins

Penguins shoot "poop bombs" more than 4 feet, incredibly important study finds. 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.

Scientists calculated that the pressure generated in the rectums of pooping penguins was as much as 28.2 kPa (28,200 newtons).

"I was surprised by the extremely strong penguin's rectal pressure," said lead study author Hiroyuki Tajima, an assistant professor in the Department of Natural Science at Kochi University in Japan.

Though Humboldt penguins stand only 28 inches tall, the scientists discovered that the birds can generate enough poo-propelling energy to send fecal "bombs" flying at speeds of nearly 5 mph, landing up to 53 inches away. This achievement would be comparable to an adult human shooting their feces to a distance of more than 10 feet.

https://www.livescience.com/pengins-projectile-poo.html

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