Climate change is also driving penguins to colonize new areas, or to stay in regions longer than they normally would, ...

Imagine looking at the world through the stalked compound eyes of krill in the Southern Ocean. All of a sudden, a penguin appears like a voracious giant, streamlined like a torpedo, chasing and ...

Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Although a single penguin is capable of devouring thousands of krill in a single sitting, swarms of the zooplankton may detect ...

The foul stench of penguin poop sets Antarctic krill on edge. In lab experiments, the mere scent of penguin droppings — or guano — sent krill scrambling for escape, researchers report March 20 ...

Humans aren’t the only ones repelled by penguin poo, however. To krill, tiny shrimp-like creatures, the smell of penguin poo triggers evasive maneuvers, probably because they know that penguins are on ...

Imagine looking at the world through the stalked compound eyes of krill in the Southern Ocean. All of a sudden, a penguin appears like a voracious giant, streamlined like a torpedo, chasing and ...

Just a faint whiff of penguin poop pushes their favorite prey to take "frantic" evasive action, reveals new research. Antarctic krill swim in fast "zigzags" in reaction to guano from predators ...

In a second set of experiments, the researchers showed that krill reduced their rate of ingesting algae for food by 64% when penguin poo was added to the water, dropping from 12.7 micrograms of ...