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Types of Penguins

Penguins have been changing trough years pass actually are 17 species around the world, but the most important ones are:

• Humboldt Penguin: This is an average sized penguin with a full-grown weight of no more than 13 pounds. When they mature they will develop a black breast band that help them to swim and hunt.
• Macaroni Penguin: You will be able to tell Macaroni Penguins from other species due to the colors of the feathers on top of their heads. They are yellow and black and very dark in color.
• Little Blue Penguin: The Little Blue Penguin is one quite small compared to other species. In fact, it is due to this small size that it is also referred to as the Fairy Penguin.

• Rockhopper Penguin: With some very colorful feathers on their heads, it is hard to mistake the Rockhopper Penguin for anything else.
• King Penguin: The King Penguin is very large compared to other species. It is the second largest of them all. Full grown, they can be up to three feet tall and weigh up to 35 pounds.
• Galapagos Penguin: Classified as one of the smaller species of penguins, the Galapagos are quite interesting. They aren’t more than 5 pounds when fully-grown or taller than 20 inches.
• African Penguin: The Southern coast of Africa is where you will find the majority of the African Penguins. This species is around the whole continent and humanity know the location of 24 colonies.
• Emperor Penguin: This penguins are the biggest penguins around the world they are know as Emperor Penguin, the males and females are hard to distinguish as they are very similar is physical size and colors.
• Adelie Penguin: The Adelie Penguin is one that often looks quite overweight. It is short but wide which tends to give it that appearance.

MLA

• "Alphabetical Listing of the Types of Penguin." PenguinWorld's Home Page. Web. 15 Nov. 2011. <http://www.penguinworld.com/types/>.
• "Rockhopper Penguin." Penguin Facts, Emperor Penguins, Adelie Penguins, King Penguins. Web. 15 Nov. 2011. <http://www.penguins-world.com/rockhopper-penguin.html>.

Menu for penguins!

Penguins are animals that live in very cold parts of the earth so they need to eat things that are pretty cold; they basically eat krill (a shrimp), squids, and small fishes. The preference of food depends of the penguin species, but is almost the same. For example the penguins that live in the northern part use to eat more small fishes than penguins in other regions.

Emperor and king penguins prefer eat squids and fishes.

The quantity of food penguins eat depends of variety and available food and the time of the year. For example a colony of 5 million penguins may eat 8 millions kilograms of krill and small fishes daily.

The way that a penguin hunt is a mystery but many scientists think, penguins has an special ability to communicate and for see in completely darkness, because most of times penguins hunt in the night. But in hard times penguins need to swim long distances in order to find food. Emperor penguins that are a big penguin need to travel up to approximately 1,500 kilometers in a single foraging trip to find and hunt food for survive.

Penguins also have a period called fasting where penguins has they annual molting periods so they eat less food, during this period penguins are develop new plumage to became adults and this process end once the molt is complete, sometimes this process is very complex for some penguins that stared very young, but there are other penguins that adapt to this process very quick. This process may be complete in a period of 60 to 120 days depending also to the weather and external conditions of each penguin. In the process the penguin create a layer to protect the upper pair of there body that would help them for the whole life.

MLA;

Lad, Kashmira. "Penguin Habitat: What Do Penguins Eat?" Buzzle Web Portal: Intelligent Life on the Web. Web. 03 Nov. 2011. <http://www.buzzle.com/articles/penguin-habitat-what-do-penguins-eat.html>.

 

"What Do Penguins Eat." Penguin Facts, Emperor Penguins, Adelie Penguins, King Penguins. Web. 03 Nov. 2011. <http://www.penguins-world.com/what-do-penguins-eat.html>.