How do penguins keep warm in the cold?

Answer 1

Penguins are able to survive the cold because they have a variety of unique adaptations:

• Penguins have a thick layer of fat underneath the skin which helps to store energy.
• This thick layer of fat also insulates them.
• Penguin feathers are specially designed. They are short and have an under-layer of fine woolly down, and easily shed water - a useful characteristic given that penguins spend up to 75% of their time in the water.
• Penguin feathers are shaped to overlap, enabling better streamlining for penguins when they are in the water, and protection from the cold wind when they are on land.
• Their body shape is also streamlined for rapid swimming and effective diving.
• Penguin wings, which are really flippers, and their feet are prone to losing a lot of heat because they are less well insulated. However, this problem is minimised because the muscles that operate their feet and flippers are not located deeper in the warmer, protected regions of the penguin's body. Long tendons move their feet and flippers, so it doesn't matter when the feet and flippers get too cold as they can still be operated normally.
• Penguins have dark feathers on the broad expanse of their backs. These black feathers absorb the heat of the sun, helping to warm up the birds.
• Penguins have a specially designed circulatory system which can adjust to conserving or releasing heat to maintain a constant temperature.
• Many species of penguins huddle together for warmth, and the eggs are incubated on the penguins' feet, where they get constant warmth.
• Penguins have also developed muscles inside the warmer parts of their body to control their feet by attached tendons. This allows the feet to be able to withstand temperatures just above freezing while heated by blood flow entering the flippers.

Incidentally, not all penguins live in freezing temperatures. Some are found as far north as the Galapagos Islands.

Answer 2

Penguins adapt to the cold by huddling together. They also eat so that the fat in their body keeps them warm.Blubber not fat. Also they have 70 feathers every sq. inch. Awesome right!

1000 penguins can be in one group huddling together

Answer 3

Penguins are adapted to survive the freezing Antarctic weather in a variety of ways.

• Penguins have a thick layer of fat underneath the skin which helps to store energy.
• This thick layer of fat also insulates them.
• Penguin feathers are specially designed. They are short and have an under-layer of fine woolly down, and easily shed water - a useful characteristic given that penguins spend up to 75% of their time in the water.
• Penguin feathers are shaped to overlap, enabling better streamlining for penguins when they are in the water, and protection from the cold wind when they are on land.
• Their body shape is also streamlined for rapid swimming and effective diving.
• Penguin wings, which are really flippers, and their feet are prone to losing a lot of heat because they are less well insulated. However, this problem is minimised because the muscles that operate their feet and flippers are not located deeper in the warmer, protected regions of the penguin's body. Long tendons move their feet and flippers, so it doesn't matter when the feet and flippers get too cold as they can still be operated normally.
• Penguins have dark feathers on the broad expanse of their backs. These black feathers absorb the heat of the sun, helping to warm up the birds.
• Penguins have a specially designed circulatory system which can adjust to conserving or releasing heat to maintain a constant temperature.
• Many species of penguins huddle together for warmth, and the eggs are incubated on the penguins' feet, where they get constant warmth.
• Penguins have also developed muscles inside the warmer parts of their body to control their feet by attached tendons. This allows the feet to be able to withstand temperatures just above freezing while heated by blood flow entering the flippers.

Answer 4

with its thick fur and blubber

Sorry to interrupt but there is more to this answer.

That is really true that they keep themselves warm by it's thick fur and blubber but when it comes to blizzards, they cant stand but freezing so they huddle like what us humans do when were cold.

Penguins take turns being in the middle because it's warmer in the middle of the huddle.

Hope this helped you a lot. :)

Answer 5

The best example is the emperor penguin, Aptenodytes forsteri, which is the tallest and heaviest of all living penguin species found in the Antarctica. When the female lays a single egg, the male places the egg on his feet and covers it with a fold of stomach skin to keep it warm. The female then goes to sea to feed. Eventually, the female will return, usually to find that their chick has hatched and the female is able to give it food from her crop. After swopping over the chick, the male is then free to go to sea to feed. When the chick has grown enough, both parents can go to sea to feed, leaving the chick to gather into a crèche with other chicks.

As to surviving the extreme cold, the male is protected by a thick layer of blubber, and by grouping closely together for warmth. They will shuffle round, as those on the outside moves into the warmer centre of the group.

Answer 6

Penguins are quite fat so that layer of skin keeps them warmer and they have ver tiny ears so less heat escapes. I know this as i am doing this at school.

Answer 7

Penguins keep warm by huddling up into big groups, having large layers of body fat and are adapted to the habitat.

Answer 8

by their flubbed

Answer 9

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