Health News from Medical News Today: Keeping Warm: Coordinated Movements In A Penguin Huddle

Health News from Medical News Today Latest Health News and Medical News posted throughout the day, every day. Keeping Warm: Coordinated Movements In A Penguin Huddle 1 Jun 2011, 10:00 pm To survive temperatures below -50 ° C and gale-force winds above 180 km/h during the Antarctic winter, Emperor penguins form tightly packed huddles and, as has recently been discovered - the penguins actually coordinate their movements to give all members of the huddle a chance to warm up. Physicist Daniel P. Zitterbart from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, recently spent a winter at Dronning Maud Land in the Antarctic, making high-resolution video recordings of an Emperor penguin colony. Together with biophysicist Ben Fabry from Erlangen University, physiologist James P... You are receiving this email because you subscribed to this feed at blogtrottr.com. If you no longer wish to receive these emails, you can unsubscribe from this feed.