A citizen science project has found that penguins use their faeces to melt rocky breeding sites in order to lay their eggs, according to foreign media sources.
The project of 1.5 million online volunteers, organised by the University of Oxford, clicked through 175,000 images of penguins and flagged up images showing strange or surprising behaviour in order to aid scientific discovery, according to foreign media outlets.
It suggests penguins form large groups before they start to breed with the dark colour of their faeces attracting heat faster than the lighter colours of the surrounding snow, causing the area to melt faster, reported a foreign news agency.
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