Penguin Fun Facts

PENGUIN fun FACTs Are Penguins Kosher? I

haven’t heard of penguin served in fancy

Chasunas yet, but who knows if it will be available. The reasoning is simple… There is ONLY 24 non Kosher birds all listed in Parshas Shmini and Re’e. Any other bird is actually Kosher. The Ba’al Hamaor states that any bird with webbed feet is not from those 24 birds. Also an egg of a Kosher bird is Kad V’chad has a Wide bottom and Pointy top. The same with this amazing bird. In the secular world Penguin latest food available in abundance soon

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Penguins could be the roast of choice if a plan to use the world penguin surplus goes ahead. Penguins, long considered inedible even by the hardiest of sailors, have recently been discovered to taste a lot like veal, if cooked for long enough. The seabird, once considered 'cute' and 'funny' but now known to be a violent of the beautiful unspoiled wilderness of Antarctica, is available as a frozen dish. Opposition for the new foodstuff has been minor, with only nine people (figures adjusted for accuracy) claiming that the penguin should not be eaten - goodbye chicken!"

Figure 2 Penguin Eggdesecrator

Penguins are Birds Yes Penguins are birds with black and white feathers and a funny waddle. But unlike most birds, penguins are not able to fly, in the air that is. Penguins spend as much as 75% of their time underwater, searching for food in the ocean. When they are in the water, they dive and flap their wings. It looks just like they are flying! Penguins are shaped like a torpedo. Their body is built for the most efficient swimming with their average speed in the water being about 15 miles per hour.

Speed of the Fastest human Swimmer: 5 mph the penguin is 3x faster!!!

Figure 3 Torpedo

Airborne Penguins The only time that penguins are airborne is when they leap out of the water. Penguins will often do this to get a gulp of air before diving back down for fish. Penguins cannot breathe underwater like fish do, though they are able to hold their breath for a long time. They also use their ability to leap out of the water to get from the ocean onto land if there are cliffs or ice flows to deal with.

Temperature Penguins spend a lot of time dealing with temperature. They are warm blooded, just like people with a normal body temperature of about 100 degrees F. So how do they stay warm in the cold places they live and in the icy cold waters? Blubber: Just like whales, penguins have a layer of fat under their skin called "blubber". Blubber is a thick layer of vascularized fat found under the skin of all cetaceans, Pinnipeds and Sirenians

Figure 4 Whale Blubber

Overtop of this they are covered with fluffy "down" feathers and overtop of those they have their outer feathers which overlap to seal in warmth.

Penguin Oil: Penguins rub oil from a them waterproof and windproof.

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Emperor Penguins Even so, penguins often need help to stay warm. In photos and footage, you'll often see groups of penguins huddled shoulder to shoulder with their wings tight against their body keeping each other warm. As many as 5,000 penguins will bunch together to warm each other up. Some penguins have the opposite problem. The Galapagos penguins live in such tropical weather that they get too hot. These penguins spread out their wings and fluff out their feathers to help them cool off.

Dinner Time Penguins eat seafood. Their main diet is fish, though they'll also eat squid, small shrimplike animals called "krill" and crustaceans. If you look closely at a penguin's bill you'll notice a hook at the end, perfect for grabbing dinner. They also have backward facing bristles on their tongues that help slippery seafood from getting away.

Penguins don't live near freshwater at least none that isn't frozen. Instead they drink salt water. They have a special gland in their bodies that takes the salt out of the water they drink and pushes it out of grooves in their bill. A handy in-house filtration system!

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Just a Boy and a Girl... Once a penguin finds a mate, they usually stay together for years for as long as they have chicks.

Adelie penguin rookery on the Antarctic Peninsula

Penguins don't jump, they BOUNCE! Penguins don't live in the best habitats for finding nesting material, so they have to make do with what they can find. Rockhopper penguins build their nests on steep rocky areas. To get there, they hold both feet together and bounce from ledge to ledge. These birds can bounce up to 5 feet! Magellanic penguins dig burrows under the ground to form huge "cities" similar to gophers. Adelies and chinstrap penguins use rocks to build their nests. The perfect rock is a rare commodity for these birds. They'll often fight over or steal each other's stones!

The perfect rock!

Penguin Chicks As soon as the egg is laid (penguins lay one or two eggs at a time), the female dashes out for dinner, leaving the male to watch the nest (it can take up to two weeks for her to come back). When the female returns it's the male's turn to head out for food, leaving the female with the egg. When the chick hatches, it immediately starts calling so that its parents will learn to recognize its voice.

Emperor penguin chick Once the chick is strong enough, both parents head for the ocean at the same time. The chicks are left in a group together (sort of like a daycare). When the penguin parents return with dinner they recognize their chick by its voice.

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see them. Penguins are also eaten by a number of eagle and the Skua. The penguins black backs blend against difficult to spot them from above.

Penguins are a food source for a number of marine mammals, especially leopard seals. These seals hide under ice flows and wait for their prey. Other marine mammal predators are sea lions and orcas.

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The penguins aren't without protection though. Their white bellies blend with the snow and sunlight making it difficult for an underwater predator to

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birds -- for example, the Australian sea the dark ocean water, making it more

Penguins also have a number of on-land predators like ferrets, cats, snakes, lizards, foxes and rats.

Leopard Seal

Playful Penguin Pastimes Between staying warm, raising chicks, finding food and avoiding predators, a penguin's life may not sound like much fun. But penguins have some playful pastimes -many of which are surprisingly similar to human hobbies! Tobogganing: Penguins lie on their belly and toboggan through the ice and snow. This helps them move quickly.

Diving Penguins

Surfing: Penguins are often seen surfing through the waves onto land. Diving: Penguins dive off cliffs and ice flows into the water, hop back up onto the land and dive down again. Line-ups for good diving spots can get very long!

Penguin Habitat There are 17 species of penguin, each slightly different. Some of the species have nicknames which can cause people to think there are more than 17 species (for example the Little penguin is also known as the Blue penguin). All of the species live in the Southern hemisphere. Many live at the South Pole on Antarctica. But some don't live in such cold places. They are found on the coasts of South America, Africa, Australia, New Zealand and the Galapagos Islands. The Emperor penguin is the only species that breeds and nests in Antarctica through the frigid winter.

List of Penguin Species: 1. Adelie Penguin

10. King Penguin

2. African Penguin

11.Little (or Blue) Penguin

3. Chinstrap Penguin

12. Macaroni Penguin

4. Emperor Penguin

13. Magellanic Penguin

5. Erect-Crested Penguin

14. Rockhopper Penguin

6. Fiordland Penguin

15.Royal Penguin

7. Galapagos Penguin

16.Snares Penguin

8. Gentoo Penguin

17. Yellow-eyed Penguin

9. Humboldt Penguin

Adelie Penguins

Adelie penguins are the smallest of the Antarctic penguins. One way to distinguish them from the other penguins is by their all black head and the white ring around their eye. Adelie penguins were named after the wife of a French explorer in the 1830s. They are about 2 feet tall and weigh 8 or 9 pounds. Their diet is mainly fish. Adelies build their nests of stones on the rocky beaches of Antarctica, jealously guarding and often fighting over the best rocks. There are over 2.5 million breeding pairs living in Antarctica. They live in groups of about 10,000 birds.

Adelie Penguin

African Penguins African penguins have a black upside down Ushape on their neck with black speckles on their chest. They are about 2 feet tall and weigh between 7 and 11 pounds. African penguins live and breed on the coast of South Africa. People have hunted these penguins so much that their numbers declined from at least one million to about 150,000. They are now a protected species, but are still caused trouble by oil spills off the coast of Africa. African penguins are also known as the Blackfoot penguin.

Scientific genus and species: Spheniscus demersus African penguin

Chinstrap Penguins Chinstrap penguins get their name from the small black band that runs under their chin. They are about 2 feet tall and weigh about 10 pounds. They feed on krill and fish. Chinstrap penguins are the most common penguins with a population of about 13 million. They often live on large icebergs on the open ocean in the Antarctic region. Chinstrap penguin

Emperor Penguins

Emperor penguins are the largest penguin species. They are nearly 4 feet tall and weigh up to 90 pounds. Those are BIG penguins! Emperor penguins are easily identifiable by their size and the orange "glow" on their cheeks. Emperor penguins live, year round, in the Antarctic. Temperatures can fall as low as -140 degrees Fahrenheit (-60 degrees Celsius that’s 60 below freezing, no human can survive). ONE EGG ONLY: Most penguin species lay two eggs at a time, but due to the difficulty of raising chicks in such a harsh climate, the Emperor penguin only lays one egg. Hatched By The Male Only: Most penguin species take turns warming the egg, but it's up to the Emperor penguin dads to do all the work once the egg is laid. The male stands with the egg on his feet under a brood pouch (for warmth). He does this for up to 9 weeks, without food, waiting for the chick to hatch. During this time, the male may lose up to half its body weight. Once the egg hatches, the female returns and the male heads out to the ocean to feed. Scientific genus and species: Aptenodytes forsteri

Emperor penguins

Galapagos Penguins Penguins do not live in the wild in any location in the Northern Hemisphere. The northern most colonies of penguins are located in the Galapagos Islands. The Galapagos Penguins can survive close to the equator because the Humboldt current brings cold waters to the islands from the Antarctic.

Galapagos Penguin

Gentoo Penguins

Gentoo penguins live on many of the islands of the Antarctic region but the main colony is on the Falklands. They are about 3 feet tall and weigh about 13 pounds. Their diet consists of krill and some small fish. Gentoo penguins are easily identifiable by the wide white stripe over the top of their head. It runs from one eye to the other. Gentoo penguins make nests on the inland grasslands. They pile stones, grass and sticks to create a circular nest. Like the Adelies and Chinstrap penguins, the Gentoo will also fight over stones for nesting.

Gentoo penguin

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