I think It helps them swim.
To hold its testicals
I want to be more exclamable,but a flipper is a "wing" like a bird but the flipper cannot make the animal fly.Penguins have flippers.
(Flipper) was a television drama about- essentially a tame dolphin. Flipper was a bottle-nosed dolphin and the star of the show.
It is the same. Flipper and webbed feet are associated as conjoined between each other.
=A penguin sleeps with its bill tucked behind a flipper, which some sources believe serves no known purpose in penguins, but is a remnant of ancestral relations to flighted birds Others believe the behavior may reduce the amount of heat lost through the face, particularly the nostrils . To conserve energy while fasting, penguins may increase the time they spend sleeping . During the antarctic winter, when the period of darkness may last more than 20 hours, huddling emperor penguins incubating eggs may spend most of a 24-hour period sleeping .=
It is a flipper, which is a modified wing that penguins use to swim underwater.
Flipper-Floppers
To hold its testicals
Penguins.
seals walk on there flipper's and they waddle on them like penguins waddle. but they are not penguins
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You can call them wings, but they're more similar to a flipper. They certainly don't have wings in the same sense that flying birds do. Here's a diagram, which labels them as "flipper-like wings" http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/birds/label/empenguin/answers.GIF
For mobility within its environment
The dolphin who played Flipper in the 1963 version of "Flipper" and "Flipper's New Adventure" was Mitzi.On the "Flipper" TV series (1964 - 1967) Flipper was played by Suzy (the name given in the credits was Flipper: as himself)On the TV series "The New Adventures of Flipper" (1995 - 2000) and the 1996 movie version of " Flipper" the part of Flipper was played by several dolphins: Aleta, Delphi, Kibbie, Santini and Tursi
flipper theme song
Flipper - 1964 My Brother Flipper - 1.10 was released on: USA: 21 November 1964
Flipper is a bottlenose dolphin.