PenguinsSummer

Douglas

Penguin feathers are so small and tightly packed there can be over seventy feathers per square inch!

The feathers are coated with a special oil which makes them waterproof.

Hmmm… I wonder if

my feathers are like that?

An adult penguin can eat up to thirty pounds of food at one time!

A penguin’s diet consists of krill, fish, and squid.

Krill Arctic Grayling fish

Squid

When swimming in open water, a penguin can swim about fifteen miles per hour!

A penguin’s black and white “suit” coloring is used to blend in with the ice at the top of the water so predator can’t see them.

Even though I’m blue I am

still a penguin.

Penguin wings are much smaller and thicker than those of a flying bird because penguins can’t fly, but they can swim instead.

The bone in a penguin’s wing is solid unlike the bone in the wings of a flying bird.

The largest muscles in a penguin’s body are in the wings, so the penguins are strong enough to swim.

Now You know all about us!