Your Daily Facts about Penguins
Penguins are birds.
They mate for life.
Penguins sleep standing up.
Penguins do not live at the North Pole.
A group of penguins is called colonies or rookery.
Penguins don’t fly, they swim. Typically penguin spends about half of its life in oceans.
Penguins lay eggs.
Penguins keep warm with insulating layers consisting of tightly packed feathers, air, skin, and blubber.
There are about 20 living species of penguin on Earth.
Penguin is an unofficial symbol of the United States Libertarian Party.
Depending on the species, a wild penguin can live 15-20 years.
The Emperor Penguin is the largest species of Penguin.
The Little Blue Penguin is the smallest species of penguin.
Penguins are carnivores that catch all their food live in the sea, they feed on squid, fish, krill and some other forms of sealife.
Penguins use their wings for swimming. In water, penguins reach an average speed of 15 miles per hour.
The oldest known fossil penguin species is Waimanu manneringi which roamed the Earth about 62 million years.
There may be as many as 100 million penguins in the world.
