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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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Are chickens and penguins related?
If Chickens are breeding with penguins then I guess there related...
What are some bad things about penguins?
the only dangers of a penguin are that they could be eaten by a shark and die
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the only dangers of a penguin are that they could be eaten by a shark and die
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they can also die with no food or they can die if you take them as a house pet
Where do penguins live Arctic or Antarctic?
Emperor penguins come to their rookeries during breeding season, which are all located in places where open water will be available later in the season, when the chicks fledge, and the sea ice melts.
This means that the adults walk/ waddle/ scoot on the ice sometimes up to 70 Kms, in order to return to the rookery every year -- in July -- in austral winter -- in the dark.
Once breeding season is over and the chicks fledge, the penguins disappear: scientists still don't know where these animals spend the remainder of the year.
Would female emperor penguins be empress penguins?
Most likely no, because "Emperor Penguin" refers to their species, so "female emperor penguin" would be correct, not "empress".
Penguins do not build or utilise structures commonly thought of as "shelter". Instead, during cold winters, penguins huddle together in a large mass to stay warm, with young penguins safe at the center of the pseudo-shelter.
Is the little penguin a mammal?
No, a penguin is a flightless bird, while a marsupial is a mammal which rears its young in a pouch.
Some penguins (such as the Emperor Penguin) have a skin flap which they incubate their egg in to stop it freezing but this doesn't make them mammals!
Is an octopus a cold blooded vertebrate?
Octopus, as with most current invertebrates, are exothermic or cold-blooded.
How deep do Emperor Penguins dive?
The adult Emperor Penguin on average, can swim about 15 miles per hour, almost as fast as the Bottlenose Dolphin. But when hunting, they dive deep, mostly for their food, such as: fish, krill, and squid. For more details, please see the sites listed below.
What birds have no feathers and can fly?
All birds have wings.
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.
Are the emperor penguins going extinct?
According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) website (refer to the link, below), Emperor penguins are currently designated as "least concern" based on information gathered in 2008.
Is the Emperor Penguin a mammal?
The Emperor penguin is not a mammal, it is like all other birds and penguins.
If you have not seen a bird climb before, you've never seen a parakeet. Anyways, many birds clime, such as woodpeckers, parakeets, etc. Because ofdifferent varieties, each bird has a different types of feet (grasping foot, scratching foot, swimming foot, perching foot, running foot, etc.). Different feet are designed for different habitats.
What is the nesting habit of a penguin?
The emperor penguin encourages gender role reversal. The male of the species spends the majority of the time warming the egg by sitting on top of it, while the female forages for food.
Another interesting fact is though seen nesting in large groups, the emperor penguins do not come into contact with each other. This is to prevent compression of feathers and loss of insulation.
What is the most common penguin in Antarctica?
It is actually the Adelie penguin. But you will also find Emperors, Chinstraps and Gentoo penguins breeding on Antarctica's beaches.
How do penguins cope in the cold?
- Air is a good insulator and so it will trap the body heat of the penguins. It also makes the whole group of penguins warmer and the product of all the penguin's body heat is greater that of just one penguin other than that, they will also rotate around with the penguins on the outside.
How much do adult penguins weigh?
The largest living species is the Emperor Penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri): adults average about 1.1 m (3 ft 7 in) tall and weigh 35 kg (75 lb) or more. The smallest penguin species is the Little Blue Penguin (Eudyptula minor), also known as the Fairy Penguin, which stands around 40 cm tall (16 in) and weighs 1 kg (2.2 lb). (Wikipedia)
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Polar bears will eat fish, but this is rare behavior as fish free swimming would be hard for them to catch. Penguins are not found in the Arctic region where polar bears are found. Polar bears eat mainly seals, and scavenge dead whales, but will eat most anything.
Why are emperor penguins in danger of extiction?
Oil spills are probably the biggest problems for penguins. The oil gets on their feathers and they get it in their beaks when they preen. Since they don't fly and must surface often to breathe, penguins are unable to avoid being coated if oil is on the surface of the water. Also their eggs will contain traces of oil in them too. This is a problem because it either kills the embryo inside or the oil deforms the developing chick. Penguins cannot see the oil coming and neither can most humans. On July 23, 2000, the oil tanker "The Treasure" sank, leaving a huge mass of oil. The company SANCCOB, a rehabilitation organization, immediately started helping the penguins. Still, almost 40% of the African Penguin population was oiled.
Along the coast of Argentina, Magellanic penguins are killed, not by oil accidents, but by the routine operations of large oil tankers. Empty tankers must fill their tanks with water for (to act as weight) purposes. Then, within about two miles before filling with oil, the oily water must be discharged -- directly into the ocean.