Penguins

The sounds that penguins make are often referred to as "vocalizations." These include a variety of calls such as braying, trumpeting, and whistling, depending on the species and context. Each type of vocalization serves different purposes, such as attracting mates, signaling alarm, or communicating with their young.

They don't need to, as they have found a niche that no one else can survive in.

To help keep warm.

The parent (usually the father) gives the food to the chick. The male penguin also finds food for the chick. The father does not eat till the chick has had enough food to eat.

All penguins are vertebrates because they have spines.

A penguin's streamlined body is an adaptation that enhances its swimming efficiency. Their torpedo-shaped form reduces drag as they move through water, allowing for quicker and more agile navigation. Additionally, their strong flippers act like wings, enabling powerful propulsion while swimming. This streamlined design is crucial for hunting and avoiding predators in their aquatic environment.

Penguins are described as living in the Polar ecosystem. Others would argue that penguins actually live in the Arctic bionome.

Penguins do have butts. Like other animals, they have to excrete waste.

The primary predators of chinstrap penguins include sea lions and leopard seals. Other predators include orcas and sharks, and chicks are preyed on by seabirds, such as skuas and sheathbills.

they have feathers and its called DOWN.

2 a year

Well, going onto the topic of Global Temperature Change, we humans have a large number for our CO2 (Carbon Dioxide) emissions. And those emissions then cause the "greenhouse effect" which is good in some sense since it prevents us from freezing to death by keeping it warm enough.

THEN, warmer climate in bizarre areas, like where the penguins live, causes ice to melt. Penguins can't swim forever. For that I'm pretty darn sure. (Esp. w/ the mating season, the egg might sink. But, then again I don't know the density of an average penguin egg. XD)

THEREFORE, the whole main point is that we are destroying penguin habitats (Well, natural ones that is).

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Actually it is really hard to find Penguins because they require a very particular tempature. so they can die easily.

some other reasons are...

they are birds that cannot fly

they live in artic areas, most birds have to fly South for Winter.

they LOVE water and spend alot of time in the water without breathing.

-Maria Lenway

The Royal Penguin (Eudyptes schlegeli) inhabits the waters surrounding Antarctica.

Your answer depends on the location of the penguin colony.

Near the Ross Sea, for example, Emperor Penguins can travel across about 60 Km of ice in order to reach open water to feed.

Once she lays the egg, the female travels to open water to feed. She transfers the egg to the male's feet before leaving them. Ultimately, she returns -- about six to eight weeks later, and transfers the egg from his feet to her feet. Then the male travels about the same distance to feed in open water.

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A penguin is both.

Penguins are a protected species and therefore illegal to won as pets. It would be very difficult to provide a proper climate for a penguin to live in.

Penguins flap their flippers to swim underwater, like birds flap their wings to fly through the air. They paddle with their webbed feet when floating on the surface.