🐧 PENGUINS 🐧
Penguins are flightless seabirds that live almost exclusively below the equator. Some island-dwellers can be found in warmer climates, but most reside in and around icy Antarctica. A thick layer of blubber and tightly-packed, oily feathers are ideal for colder temperatures. While penguins cant fly, their stiff flippers, webbed feet, and sleek shape make them expert swimmers. In fact, they spend most of their lives in the ocean and do nearly all of their hunting for krill, squid, and crabs underwater.
Reasons To Love Penguins
- Penguins make good parents. They often keep the same mate for life and both parents take turns incubating the eggs and feeding and protecting chicks.
- African penguins can swim up to 12 miles per hour while hunting.
- A wild penguin eats close to 14 percent of its body weight each day. For a 150 pound person, that would be like eating 21 pounds of food a day!
- They've got happy feet! Penguins have especially adapted feet for long-distance walking. In the water, these feet sit flush to their bodies and act like rudders, controlling the penguins direction of swimming.
- Many male penguins gift female penguins with rocks in order to woo them.
- Penguins have a complex vocal communication system that enables them to identify each other by distinct sounds.
Coded By: Eriselda Portillo