Author: Dan Garisto / Source: Science News
Emperor penguins are known to huddle for warmth, but their regal relatives prefer personal space.
Aerial photos of two king penguin breeding colonies show that individuals and couples keep their distance from neighbors but still stay together as a group.
That arrangement resembles a simulated 2-D liquid in which molecules on a flat plane simultaneously attract and repel one another, researchers report April 4 in the Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics.“Simple physics models are elegant and…
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