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Penguins have always fascinated me! How on earth can they be birds?? They don't look like birds, do they? So, I went and did a little research on them!!
Penguins are the most highly specialized of all birds for marine life. They swim entirely by means of their flipperlike wings, using their webbed feet as rudders. Their stiff feathers serve as insulation, and are waterproof when
on land, and often travel by tobogganing on their bellies over the ice as they migrate sometimes great distances each Fall to their nesting sites. They do not eat while on land, subsisting on a layer on a layer of fat under
the skin;
this results in weight loss of up to 75 lb (33.8 kg) during the two (3–4 ft/91.5–122 cm in height), incubate their eggs between their feet in a fold of skin.
Penguins are highly gregarious, and a population density of half a million birds in 500 acres has been counted at a colony in Antarctica.
Information obtained here
We don't have penguins in Brazil, or better we do have some at the zoo and from time to time a lost penguin is brought by cold streams to our shore but I'm lucky enough to have two Brazilian penguins! They were lovingly made for me by Luciana and Kalus, muchas gracias mis amigos! Obrigada Lu!!
And at last but not of course, at least, this adorable couple!!
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