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Penguins
Penguins live primarily in Antarctica, but can also be found in cold coastal areas of South America, New Zealand, Australia, and South Africa. There are seventeen species of Penguins, and seven are found only in Antarctica.
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In what year did the Galapagos penguin become endangered?
The Galapagos Turtles are not actually endangered. They are just vunerable. They used to be endangered when the introduction of predators, grazers by humans, and hunter caused their populations fell. In 1946, the Euadorian government listed them a protected species. In 1970 it was illegal to export the tortoises. In 1971, it was illegal to in any way affect a natural object in the National Park.
What types of plants do penguins eat?
Most penguin species are found in Antarctica where no trees grow.
Yes, the Emperor Penguin is. It is the tallest and heaviest of the penguins. A link is provided. If you haven't seen the documentary "March of the Penguins" yet, find it and watch it. It is breathtaking. Consider the life of the bird and what it took to make the film as you watch.
What is the little blue penguins climate?
- They can be found all around the coast of New Zealand, the southern coast of Australia, as well as surrounding islands
Their own, natural skin oils make their feathers waterproof, keep them neat and clean and help in their buoyance. This fact is the origin of the phrase "like water off a duck's back". Literally, water does not stay on their skin, that might be why penguins can go through water so fast, their feathers might make them more aerodynamic.
What does a baby penguin normally eat?
A baby penguin will eat food that has been eaten by one of it parents and then regurgitated. It therefore will eat fish of various kinds. This goes on until it is able to go and catch its own fish.
penguins live in Antarctica African (south) new zealand and austarila
Why are penguins considered as birds?
The characteristics of a bird is that is has feathers as its outer covering ,beak ,wings.The ability to fly is actually an exception. Most birds can fly while some bird's can't. Penguin is one of those exceptions which can't fly. Other examples will be ostrich and emu.
Why do birds fly and others don't?
Several other birds learn to mimic human voices, among them Mynahs, Crows (very limited) and Starlings, which are related to Mynahs. None of them, including parrots, actually talk -- what they are doing is learning our "song" and repeating it at appropriate times.
How do penguins breath smell like?
the same reason why fish smell like fish because of there habbitat.
Everyone including meeeee i love them so much there so cute small and fuzzy. ahhhhhhhhhhh i love them sooooo much.
Do baby penguins make a sound?
Yes, they all have their unique call that their parents recognise and go to after a long days fishing. Or if they get lost... ect!
What are the adaptations for the survival of a penguin?
For the most part, penguins are found in cold regions. Penguins are specially adapted to live in these colder areas, because they have blubber which can protect them from the cold. Cold water can remove heat from the body much faster than air, so a good insulator is required.
Penguins are adapted to live in and near the ocean because they eat fish. They have special adaptations that allow them to live in the water. Penguins have webbed feet to help them swim faster, and their vision is believed to be better underwater than on land. They cannot fly in air because their wings are too small for their body weight, but their wings are adapted to help them live and dive in the water. The penguin is simply unable to create enough energy to take off. Penguins' wing bones are fused straight, rather than angled like a flying bird's, and this has the effect of making the wing rigid and powerful, like a flipper. The small wings and a streamlined body shape are ideal for diving in water.
Unlike the majority of other birds, penguins do not have hollow bones, so are much heavier and harder to support with their small wings. The solid, as opposed to hollow, bones act as ballast to help them dive. Also, being solid, they are less prone to breakage from the stresses of swimming. Some (but not all) flying birds have hollow bones to be lighter.
Penguins also have higher levels of myoglobin and feathers optimized for the aquatic environment. Myoglobin is the main way penguins store oxygen during their long dives. The muscles of flying birds are filled with mitochondria and enzymes to power flight, and there is no space left-over for myoglobin. So, flying birds cannot spend us much time underwater as penguins because they have less myoglobin (less oxygen per body mass) and lower body mass (less over oxygen).
Another adaptation that penguins have is that their feathers are optimised for an aquatic environment. Penguin feathers are short and packed together tightly, overlapping, to keep water away from the skin and to create a smooth surface to lower drag. Their feathers are coated with oil from a gland near the tail to increase the "waterproof" factor. They have a downy underlayer of feathers which traps air against the skin. This layer of air is warmed by the penguin's body heat.
Penguins have short, round bodies (round bodies limit heat loss compared to long, streamlined bodies), flat faces with fat pads over the sinuses, narrow noses, and a heavy layer of body fat. These adaptations provide minimum surface area in relation to body mass for minimum heat loss and protect the lungs and base of the brain against cold air in the nasal passages.
They also have adaptations to allow them to keep cool. Some species have bare, featherless patches around their eyes which allow excess heat to escape. In addition, penguins are able to raise their feathers to allow warmth to escape. Like many other species, penguins have numerous tiny capillaries, which are blood vessels, close to the surface of the skin on their wings, and this has the effect of allowing extra heat to escape when penguins extend their wings and allow the air to move across them. Penguins are also able to release heat through their feet.
Even a penguin's colouring is an adaptation. When they are swimming, they are effectively camouflaged from below due to their white bellies, so that predators cannot see them as easily. In addition, it helps to hide them well from the fish they hunt. The black feathers on a penguin's back absorb sunlight, warming them up even when they are on cold ice.
Penguins have small glands under the skin above their eyes, and these glands help them filter out the excess salt from the ocean water. It causes the salt to drip down their beak, from where the penguins are able to shake it off.
The Ostrage is the largest bird in the world. and I'm not trying to be a super obnoxious person, but you don't have to say "in the world ever" it is very repetitive.
What is the nesting place called for penguins?
It depends on the species.
The Fairy penguin, or Little penguin, which is found along some of Australia's southern shores, lives in burrows in the sand dunes along the shoreline when it is not out hunting in the sea during the day. These birds return every night to their burrows.
The Emperor penguin, on the other hand, has no fixed nesting site, while the Gentoo penguin is different again, making a nest on the ground out of stones, sticks, grass, feathers, or almost any materials it finds.
Penguins, like all birds, have wings. The difference is that these wings help them swim, not fly.
Some sources state that the wings are vestigial, meaning they have become useless for any purpose. This is not the case, as the penguin uses its wings as flippers. Nonetheless, as birds have wings, and penguins are birds, then the logical outcome is that penguins have wings; they are not flippers.
Is there a bird that cant fly?
There are 7 families of flightless birds in total. They include the Kiwi, Cassowaries, Rheas, Ostriches, Tinamous, Emus and Penguins.
There are also numerous flightless birds within other groups of birds which are mostly made up of species which can fly. Rails, for example, include waterfowl such as moorhens, swamp hens and other small to medium birds which can fly but prefer not to. They cannot fly for any great distance, and within the rail family, there are numerous flightless birds, such as the Takahē and the weka of New Zealand, and the Inaccessible Island rail.
Other bird families have some members which cannot fly, even though most of the family can. The kakapo, which lives in New Zealand, is the world's only flightless parrot. The flightless steamer duck of the Falkland Islands is another bird which is an anomaly with its family. The Giant Coot of South America is unusual, as the adult cannot fly, but the young birds can.
There are many more species of flightless birds. See the related link for a more complete list.
Extinct birds which could not fly include the Moa, dodo, elephant bird and Terror bird.
How long does it take for a penguin learn to fly?
How long it takes a baby seagull to fly will depend on the type of seagull. It generally takes between 4 and 8 weeks for a seagull to start flying.
Which country national bird is penguin?
penguins can be found in Antarctica and , Australia, but more in Antarctica
What 3 things do Penguin turtle crab have in common?
they all have something to protect them like fur or a shell,turtles and penguin's have hard mouths or beaks and crab has hard mouth also.
Is the emperor penguin the king?
No, it's a breed of penguin. It's the most recognizable breed, to be sure, but there are 16 other breeds (eg. Rockhopper, Adeliè, Maccaronni, Chinstrap, African, Gentoo, etc)
