how do penguins mate?
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It is very difficult for the male since it is so cold out when they mate but when they do it they go penguin style not to be confused with doggie style
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They reproduce by giving birth.\nThey have to reproduce via male and female combination.\nThey can adapt their body temperature depending on environmental conditions.\nThey all have hair.
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Penguins do not live in the north pole but they DON'T only live at the south pole. There are penguins in some  southern countries as well. New Zealand for example.
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If polar bears had the opportunity to eat penguins, I'm quite sure they would. The reason they don't is because polar bears and penguins live a long distance apart. Polar bears live in Arctic regions of North America, Europe and Asia, whereas penguins live in the southern hemisphere. Some books imply that all penguins live in Antarctica. This is not true - in fact, only two species (the Adelie and emperor penguins) breed on Antarctica. Several species of penguins live around South America, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand and the Galapagos penguins live on the Galapgos islands (surprise!), which are on the equator. This is still a long way from the Arctic. \n\nThe problem about polar bears and penguins relates to many Christmas cards etc, which show polar animals living together, when, in fact, they don't. \n\nI hope that this answers your question. \n\nAll the best \n\nHaley
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The Emperor Penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri), at 1.1 meters (3 ft 9 in) tall and 30 kilograms (75 lb) in weight, is the tallest and heaviest of all penguins. It is the only penguin that breeds during the winter in Antarctica. Emperor Penguins eat mainly crustaceans (such as krill) but also indulge in consuming small fish and squid. In the wild, Emperor Penguins typically live for 20 years, but some records indicate a maximum lifespan of around 40 years. (The Emperor Penguin should not be confused with the King Penguin or the Royal Penguin.)\n\n\n\nPhysical characteristics\n\nAdults average about 1.1 metres (3 ft 9 in) and weigh 30 kilograms (75 lb) or more. The head and wings are black, the abdomen white, back bluish grey, bill purplish pink. On the sides of the neck, there are two golden circular stripes.\n\nLike the King Penguin counterpart, a male Emperor Penguin has an abdominal fold, the "brood pouch", between its legs and lower abdomen.\n\nEmperor penguin chicks are covered with a thick layer of light gray down. This covering ensures that they retain as much heat as possible, vital at this early stage when they are not capable of maintaining their body temperature. In addition, the infant emperor penguin's orbital area is covered in white downy feathers, unlike the all-black feathered head of the adult.\n\nA distinguishing characteristic between males and females is their call.\n\n\n\nEcology and behaviour\nEmperor Penguins, Ross Sea, Antarctica.\n\nEmperor Penguins are social animals, both foraging and nesting in groups. In severe weather the penguins huddle together for protection. They may be active day or night. Sexually mature adults travel throughout most of the year between the nesting area and foraging areas in the ocean. From January to March, Emperor Penguins disperse into the oceans, traveling and foraging in groups.\n\nTo find food, these penguins need to dive 150 to 250 meters (490-820 feet) into the Southern Ocean. The penguins can venture deeper, the deepest diving on record being 565 m (1870 ft). The longest they can hold their breath when underwater is 20 minutes. Their swimming speed is 6 km to 9 km per hour (4-6 mph), but they can achieve up to 19 km per hour (12 mph) in short bursts.\n\nOn land they alternate between walking with a wobbling gait and sliding over the ice on their bellies, propelled by their feet and their flipper-like wings. During the beginning of the Antarctic winter, in March and April, all mature Emperor penguins travel to colonial nesting areas, often walking 50 to 120 km from the edge of the pack ice.\n\nIn response to the cold, emperor penguins stand in compact huddles ranging in size between ten and many hundreds of birds, each leaning forward on a neighbor. Those on the outside tend to face inward and push slowly forward. This produces a slow churning action, giving each bird a turn on the inside.\n\nIn the wild, Penguin predators include Antarctic giant petrels, (Macronectes giganteus), Leopard seals, orca, skua, and sharks. Abandoned sled dogs and their progeny formerly preyed upon penguins before the removal of dogs from Antarctica.\n\n\n\n\nReproduction\n\nEmperor Penguins first begin to breed at approximately five years of age. Emperor penguins travel about 90 km inland to reach the breeding site. In March or April, the penguins start courtship, when the temperature can be as low as -40 degrees C (-40°F). Emperor penguins are serially monogamous. They have only one mate each year, and keep faithfully to that one other penguin, but each year, most choose different mates. In May or June, the female penguin lays one 450-gram (1 pound) egg, but at this point her nutritional reserves are exhausted and she must immediately return to the sea to feed. Very carefully, she transfers the egg to the male penguin, who will incubate the egg in his brood pouch for about 65 days consecutively without food by surviving on his fat reserves and spending the majority of the time
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Penguins live in the South Pole and Eskimos in the North Pole
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All penguins have a white underside and a dark (mostly black) upperside. This is for camouflage. A predator looking up from below (such as an orca or a leopard seal) has difficulty distinguishing between a white penguin belly and the reflective water surface. The dark plummage on their backs camouflages them from above.
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Biologically speaking they lay eggs in spring because the increasing day length triggers the brain to release reproductive hormones. Those hormones cause the birds to mate, which of course leads to eggs.\n\nEvolutionarily birds lay eggs in spring because summer and autumn are the times of most abundant food: insects, fruit, nuts, mice and so forth. By laying eggs in spring the young birds start flying when there is the maximum  amount of food around. That way they have a few months to learn how to hunt, find berries and so on before it becomes difficult. By the time winter comes they have become proficient at finding food, so even though there is less food around in winter they have become so good at finding it they won’t starve. If eggs were laid in winter or autumn the young would be trying to learn how to find food when food is most scarce and they would almost certainly starve before they learned.\n\nThe abundance of food in spring and summer also make sit easier for the parents to find enough food to bring back to the nest.\n\nSome people will try to tell you that birds nest in spring because they can’t keep the eggs warm in winter. Of course this makes no sense because many penguins lay their eggs right at the very beginning of winter. They do that because the maximum amount of food available in the Antarctic occurs right at the very end of winter and start of spring. By laying their eggs at the beginning of winter the penguin chicks start swimming right when the maximum amount of food is available, just as other birds start flying just when the most food is around.
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penguins mate for life. May I offer my congratulations. I hope the two of you will be happy together.
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Penguins main predator is the seal or sea lion. They are most vulnerable in the water but they are fast swimmers, if they make it back to the ice they are OK, if not they are lunch.\nSeeing as ice is white and penguins are black and white so I don't like their chances of not being seen.
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Penguins, like other flightless birds (ostriches and emus) evolved from birds that could fly.\n\n65 million years ago the ancestors of today's penguins flew over the ocean and dove down into the water for food.\n\nOver millions of years, their hollow bones became solid and they could no longer lift themselves out of the water to fly. But, their heavier bones made is easier for them to dive down into the water.
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Long ago the ancestors of penguins were birds that could fly.  However, they evolved to become superb divers, and in the process lost the power of flight.  A flying bird has to minimise its weight.  For example, all flying birds have hollow bones.  In contrast, to be a successful diver a penguin wants to keep it's weight high, so they have solid bones. Penguins are excellent divers, they can dive to depths of 300m and remain down for up to 20 minutes.  While penguins cannot fly in the air, they do seem to fly through the water - if you ever get the chance to see penguins swimming in a large and deep pool you will never again say they can't fly!
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Research a little. Many of the other species of animal are monogamous.
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As we know from biological studies in the field, many animals are homosexual.  Hundreds of species are covered in the seminal work in the area -- Biological Exuberance by Dr. Bruce Bagemihl, published by St. Martin's Press.  Higher and (to my surprise) lower animals routinely engaged in homosexual behavior -- including EXCLUSIVELY HOMOSEXUAL BEHAVIOR in hundreds of species.  Those species with pair bonding demonstrated homosexual pair bonding as well.\n\nIt's a fascinating read.\n\nRegards,\n\nReynolds Jones\nSchenectady, NY\nhttp://www.rebuff.org
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you can't, it's impossible. they are not of the same species or genius let alone class. good luck trying to even get them to mate.
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Penguins cannot be eaten by Polar Bears, as these birds are endemic to the antarctic and Polar bears are only found in the artic (South and North poles, respectively).\n\nWhen a penguin  does die though, they do decompose, but at a bit slower rate than they would in a warmer climate. Other scavenging animals can also feed on the penguin carrion as well.
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The real answer is that waterbirds have a really clever method of stoping the cold blood from their feet mixing with the blood from their bodies, and vice versa. \n\nAs blood flows into the feet it passes right beside the blood flowing out. Most of  the heat is drawn from the warm blood before it reaches the feet, but enough heat remains to prevent the feet from freezing.  \n\nThe blood then leaves the feet, passing close to fresh blood coming in. The cold blood draws the heat form the warm blood, and thus warms up before it enters the body again.  That prevents the duck form getting cold even though its feet are just a few degrees above freezing.\n\nThis system is most well developed in the penguins, some of which spend months at a time standing on ice.  If the solution was simply that the feet contained no nerves or blood vessels the penguins may not feel cold,  but there feet would freeze solid and shatter into a million pieces as soon as they tried to move them.\n\n_____________________________\n>>>>Ducks' feet have no nerves or blood vessels. \n\nThis is just nonsense of course. If a ducks feet have no blood vessels then how exactly do you think they supply oxygen to the cells?