These Majestic Seabirds Never Stop Pooping (Published 2025)
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Streaked shearwaters keep a very regular rhythm throughout their daily foraging flights, shedding about 5 percent of their body mass every hour.

Streaked shearwaters keep a very regular rhythm throughout their daily foraging flights, shedding about 5 percent of their body mass every hour.

  • PunnyName@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 year ago

    5% every hour!

    If you weighed 200 lbs, that would be 10 lbs of shit each hour. That shit must feel amazing!

    • degen@midwest.socialEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      I wanted to make a joke about how you would die if you ever stopped pooping, but that sounds like it could actually add up to ~15 minutes between goes