Penguins

Andrea Morales

Table Of Contents

Food and Water

Daily Behaviors

Family Structure

Interesting Facts

HABITAT

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Habitat• Live in snow packs or rocky shore lines

• Swim mostly in Southern Oceans

• Humbolt Penguins live along the cost of Peru and Chile in South America

• Also live in burrows

• Some Humbolt penguins live in rocky caves along the clift

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Food And Water• They drink the water but get rid of the salt to not get sick

• Most penguins take short naps

• Penguins are fast and powerful to catch their prey

• Grab their prey with there pointy bills

• May travel 620 miles to catch there food.

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Daily Behaviors• Penguins can’t breath under the for a while they need to come out and take a

breath

• Most penguins spend 3 quarters of there life in the ocean hunting for food

• When penguins are in land they need to meet a mate and get married forever

• Live in large groups called rookies

• Preen themselves everyday to take care of themselves

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Family Structure• Share taking care of food and responsibility

• Throw up there food to feed there babies instead

• Penguin eggs must be worm to be healthy to protect themselves

• After a few months penguins lose there feathers and get new ones

• The male penguin and the female penguin share there baby together

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Interesting Facts• When chicks are born they take five years to grow adults

• Chicks stand together to keep themselves warm

• Illegal to take a penguins chick; it could die without there parents

• Mostly live in Antartica

• Some penguins don’t live in cold places

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Bibliography Hall, Margaret. Penguins and Their Chicks Mankato: Capstone Press, 2004.

Squire, Ann. Penguins a True Book Canada: Children’s Press, 2007.

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