REPORT TEXT ABOUT PINGUINS

REPORT TEXT ABOUT PINGUINS

Penguins  are a group of flightless aquatic birds living almost exclusively in the Southern Hemisphere, particularly in Antarctica. Highly adaptive to live in the sea, penguins have countershaded dark and white feather, and their wings have evolved into flippers. Most penguins feed squid, fish, and other forms of sealife caught while they are swimming underwater. They spend about half of their lives in the oceans.

Eventhough all penguin species are native to the Southern Hemisphere, they don not live only in cold climates, such as Antarctica. In fact, only a little species of penguin live too far south. Some species are found in the temperate area, and one species, the Galápagos penguin, lives not too far with the equator.

The vast living species is the emperor penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri): when they are adults they are about 1.1 m (3 ft 7 in) tall and 35 kg weight or more. The smallest one is the little blue penguin (Eudyptula minor), which is known as the fairy penguin, which stands around 40 cm height and 1 kg weight. Among the species of penguin, larger penguins live in colder regions, while smaller penguins generally inhabit tropical climates places. Some prehistoric species of penguin attained enormous sizes, becoming as heavy as an adult human.