Penguins and bubbles

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Subject:	Penguins and bubbles
From:	Stephen Ambrose <>
Date:	Wed, 25 Mar 1998 17:28:57 +1000

My memory may be playing tricks on me, but I seem to recall seeing
submerged penguins exhaling bubbles of air when predatory seals were
nearby, in a David Attenborough documentary a couple of years ago.

The bubbles were produced by a group (raft, flock, herd?) of penguins,
which irritated/tickled seals that got in the way. Can anyone else recall
seeing this?

I know that Hump-backed Whales use bubbles to round up schools of fish for
food, which I also saw on a DA doco.


Dr Stephen Ambrose
Research Manager
 
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