Amazing and exciting facts about Penguin:
1.) Penguins belong to the bird family but they cannot fly.
2.) They are flightless birds who love to swim in the icy ocean water.
3.) Penguins are expert swimmers.
4.) Penguins spend up to 75% of their lives in the water.
5.) Most penguins live in the Southern Hemisphere.
No penguins live at the North Pole.
6.) Penguins can drink salt water without harming their system.
They have a special gland behind their eyes that help them to filter salt from their blood and pass it out by sneezing.
7.) Penguins eat a variety of seafood such as fish, squid, and crustaceans.
The smaller penguins usually feed on krill.
8.) Penguin's body coloring is called countershading ( darker color on the upper side of the body and lighter color on the lower side of the body).
The penguins use this countershading as camouflage.
9.) Emperor penguins are the largest species of Penguin.
10.) The smallest penguin species is the Little Blue Penguin.
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