Antonella velis

Birds that
7°D
cant fly:
penguin
 Penguins are birds: Airbone penguins

 Penguins spend as much as 75% of their time • Penguins cannot breathe underwater, though they
underwater, searching for food in the ocean.  When are able to hold their breath for a long time.
they are in the water, they dive and flap their wings.

• They also use their ability to leap out of the water

 Penguins are shaped like a torpedo.  Their body is to get from the ocean onto land if there are cliffs or
built for the most efficient swimming with their ice flows to deal with.
average speed in the water being about 15 miles per
hour.
characteristics
temperature
 Just like whales, penguins have a layer of fat
under their skin called "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.   They also have backward facing bristles on their
 They are mostly all of the time in huge groups of
more penguins; they get warm together all
Dinner time
 Penguins eat seafood.  Their main diet is fish, though
they'll also eat squid, small shrimplike animals called
"krill“, and crustaceans.
 Pnguins have something like a hook.
tongues that helps slippery seafood from getting away.
 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.
Penguin