Intersting facts about penguins
By Abhinav. Sunday, 3. May 2009, 03:45:52
Penguins are social creatures.
They adapt to various climates.
They live in large colonies called rookeries.
They waddle when they walk.
Penguins are dresses in classic black and white.
Penguins communicate with each other through body language.
They spend most of their lives in water.
They don’t fear humans but are endangered by oil spills, water pollution, and the over harvesting of ocean fish.
Their body is insulated with a thick layer of blubber that keeps them warm.
They leap out of water while swimming.
They can walk faster than humans.
They can hold their breath for about 20 minutes under water.
They have more feathers per square inch that keeps them warm in frigid waters.
They are counter-shaded for camouflage.
Baby penguins have soft feathers known as down.
They count on their parents for food until they grow up with waterproof juvenile feathers.
They pick up stones and store them in their crop. This helps them to float when they are in water.
They can control blood flow through fat.
Rockhopper penguins have very loud calls.
Penguins have knees.
Penguins' wings cannot bend due to the fact the bones in their wings have fused together to make a sort of stiff paddle.
There are exactly 17 species of penguins known. Each have different attributes, such as the smallest penguin to areas of pink around their eyes.
Most penguins swim at a speed of 15 mph in the water. The average Olympic swimmer can only swim around 5 mph.
The fastest species of penguin is the Gentoo, which can swim up to 17 miles per hour.
Most penguins live only in the Southern Hemisphere in the wild, even reaching up to Galapagos Island. The only ones in the Northern Hemisphere live at the uppermost part of the Galapagos Island
The seventeen different species are:
1) Emporer Penguin
2) King Penguin
3) Gentoo Penguin
4) Macaroni Penguin
5) Fjordland Penguin
6) Humboldt Penguin
7) African or Black-Footed Penguin
8) Magellenic Penguin
9) Snares Penguin
10) Erect-Crested Penguin
11) Royal Penguin
12) Fairy Penguin
13) Galapagos Penguin
14) Yellow-Eyed Penguin
15) Chinstrap Penguin
16) Adelie Penguin
17) Rockhopper Penguin
Penguins have a form of camouflage called counter shading. When predators look down in the water, they see the dark of water deep down. Penguins have black backs in order to not be seen from the top. Seen from below, predators see the light of the sun, so the penguins have white bellies to not be seen there.
The smallest penguin, called the Fairy Penguin, lives in Australia.
Penguins have a layer of air trapped in between their water-proof feathers that provides buoyancy.
They adapt to various climates.
They live in large colonies called rookeries.
They waddle when they walk.
Penguins are dresses in classic black and white.
Penguins communicate with each other through body language.
They spend most of their lives in water.
They don’t fear humans but are endangered by oil spills, water pollution, and the over harvesting of ocean fish.
Their body is insulated with a thick layer of blubber that keeps them warm.
They leap out of water while swimming.
They can walk faster than humans.
They can hold their breath for about 20 minutes under water.
They have more feathers per square inch that keeps them warm in frigid waters.
They are counter-shaded for camouflage.
Baby penguins have soft feathers known as down.
They count on their parents for food until they grow up with waterproof juvenile feathers.
They pick up stones and store them in their crop. This helps them to float when they are in water.
They can control blood flow through fat.
Rockhopper penguins have very loud calls.
Penguins have knees.
Penguins' wings cannot bend due to the fact the bones in their wings have fused together to make a sort of stiff paddle.
There are exactly 17 species of penguins known. Each have different attributes, such as the smallest penguin to areas of pink around their eyes.
Most penguins swim at a speed of 15 mph in the water. The average Olympic swimmer can only swim around 5 mph.
The fastest species of penguin is the Gentoo, which can swim up to 17 miles per hour.
Most penguins live only in the Southern Hemisphere in the wild, even reaching up to Galapagos Island. The only ones in the Northern Hemisphere live at the uppermost part of the Galapagos Island
The seventeen different species are:
1) Emporer Penguin
2) King Penguin
3) Gentoo Penguin
4) Macaroni Penguin
5) Fjordland Penguin
6) Humboldt Penguin
7) African or Black-Footed Penguin
8) Magellenic Penguin
9) Snares Penguin
10) Erect-Crested Penguin
11) Royal Penguin
12) Fairy Penguin
13) Galapagos Penguin
14) Yellow-Eyed Penguin
15) Chinstrap Penguin
16) Adelie Penguin
17) Rockhopper Penguin
Penguins have a form of camouflage called counter shading. When predators look down in the water, they see the dark of water deep down. Penguins have black backs in order to not be seen from the top. Seen from below, predators see the light of the sun, so the penguins have white bellies to not be seen there.
The smallest penguin, called the Fairy Penguin, lives in Australia.
Penguins have a layer of air trapped in between their water-proof feathers that provides buoyancy.
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