ABSTRACT
Puking penguins and global warming may not, on first blush, appear to have much in common. But as I discovered in Antarctica, scientific evidence is often where you find it.
Torgersen Island, Antarctica, with its thousands of squawking, flipper-flapping, chick-pecking penguins, combines the pungent odor of a cow-barn with the sound levels of a hip-hop concert. Plus most of the birds here, parents and chicks alike, have managed to stain themselves the color of Georgia red clay with their krill-rich guano.
