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Math is behind cozy penguin huddles

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"Even if penguins are only selfish, only trying to find the best spot for themselves and not thinking about their community, there is still equality in the amount of time that each penguin spends exposed to the wind," study researcher Francois Blanchette, a mathematician at the University of California, Merced, who normally researches fluid dynamics, stated in a declaration. Temperature problem warms up after superstorm Science editor Alan Boyle's blog site : The climate change problem has actually been essentially a non-issue during the presidential campaign-- but it's primed to take a higher profile after the elections, in part due to Hurricane Sandy's gruesome results. Blanchette came to be curious about penguin huddles after seeing the hit documentary "The March of the Penguins." He and his coworkers made mathematical models of penguin huddles, varying wind strength and turbulence to see what kind of shapes occurred.

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Francois Blanchette

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0.595484	"A penguin huddle is a self-sufficient system in which the animals rely on each other for shelter, and I think that is what makes it fair," Blanchette said. ...
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Alan Boyle

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Greed is good for penguins that huddle together to avoid Antarctica's icy weather. According to a new study, penguin groups can maximize everyone's heat when individual birds act selfishly, huddling in ways that keep them toastiest.

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Math is behind cozy penguin huddles

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