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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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