penguins in cold places?
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Penguins have great protection from the freezing conditions, which by the way they happily endure. Afterall, they know no different. Depending on the species of penguin, some have a very fine plumage which traps a layer of air. This protects them from the cold, other species have a very thick layer of skin almost like rubber. Great protection !
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Penguins do not live at the north pole. They live at the south pole, New Zeland, and southern africa.
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Penguins have a very large amount of body fat for insulation; this enables them to keep their core temperature very high, and allows them to circulate enough blood to their feet to keep them from freezing.
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yes penguins have sex! no they dont suck it, there feet are made for the ice so no, an yes all animals have sex organs!\ngo to the site below! to see them in action!
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Some penguins mate for life, while others for just one season. They generally raise a small brood, and the parents cooperate in caring for the clutch and for the young. During the cold season on the other hand the mates separate for several months to protect the egg. The male stays with the egg and keeps it warm, and the female goes out to sea and finds food so that when it comes home, the baby will have food to eat. Once the female comes back, they switch.
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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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Kansas City.  But they are probably staying.  I LOVE THE PENGUINS!
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It's too cold for them up north. We get all the birds down here, in the Winter time. Actually we have birds all year round. Just different ones in the Winter.
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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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Well, they have to be camouflaged for swimming in the sea.  Look at most deep - water fish (not the show - off types, that live around coral reefs), for example.  They tend to have dark colours on the side that faces up, while they swim, and pale on the other side.\n\nThis hides them from predators from above and below, better than other colour schemes.  From above, they seem dark, like the deep sea.  They must not shine, reflecting back sunlight more than deep water will.  From below, they are pale against the brighter background of the sunshine coming down through the water; they do not give as much of a shadow as if they were dark on their underside.\n\nOn land, especially in a snowy landscape, they do not seem camouflaged, but think of them as fish, and it makes more sense.\n\nBTW, Anthony, you have polar bears and seals, at the north pole / Arctic circle.  We have penguins and seals in the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica.  We have penguins in Australia too; they are a tourist attraction, where they are able to be viewed; they have become familiar with humans.
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No they don't.  You can go watch the March of the Penguins.  It talks about how they have to starve in the bitter cold protecting their eggs.  They don't actually starve. If they get too hungry they leave the egg.  It's really good.
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It's a mixture of the above answers: the penguin does control the flow of blood to the feet, by varying the diameter of the vessels carrying blood into the feet. When it is cold they reduce the flow (this means less blood to heat up when on its way back into the body). The second method of control is by way of the countercurrent heat exchangers at the top of the penguin's legs. The blood vessels break into many smaller vessels that are very close to similar small vessels coming back up into the body. All the heat flows from the warm blood into the cold, meaning little warmth is carried down into the feet and lost to the environment, keeping the heat in the penguin! The feet are a degree or two above freezing, which is just above what they would get frostbite at, but still minimises heat loss.
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Yes, they can run up to 45 mph.  Penguins can swim at 40 mph.
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Absolutely not.  They are warm-blooded creatures capable of maintaining an internal body temperature.  If birds were cold-blooded, you can bet that penguins and non-migratory birds would be in deep trouble when exposed to low temperatures!
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Do you live in a really cold climate?
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A simple answer... too far to swim. \n\nNO, the Artic is just an Ice Pack.   The penguins that you place there might not have everything that they need to survive.  \n\nWhat other imbalance are you thinking to introduce to our planet?
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Lesser penguins do, Mom, but Emperor Penguins don't.  They lost them over the billennia thru evolution, not ever having to kneel down to anyone.