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While some biologists may regard two closely-related penguins as being separate species, others regard them as being the same species.) Sadly, several types of penguins are endangered. In the list below we’ve included the conservation status of each species, using data from the IUCN Red List ( source, January 2022). The truth about Happy Feet's home". 3 News NZ. August 8, 2011. Archived from the original on December 10, 2013 . Retrieved November 21, 2012. The Fiordland penguin is a mid-sized species belonging to the genus Eudyptes, a group of penguins known as “crested penguins” due to their yellow feather crests. It breeds on the coasts of New Zealand’s South and Stewart Islands, and on several neighboring islands. The Fiordland penguin is named after the Fiordland region of New Zealand’s South Island.

Scientists have discovered that emperor penguins, the largest species, use a special bubble-power go-faster technology to increase their speed under water. 6. Penguins are media superstars

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While their waddling might make you think that they’re not very comfortable on land, penguins are actually quite skilled at moving around on solid ground. Granted, they’re much more graceful in the water, but penguins are also well-adapted to their terrestrial habitat.

It’s also easy to tell the king and emperor penguins apart in the wild because they don’t live in the same regions. Emperor penguins are true Antarctic birds while king penguins live on South Georgia, the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), Tierra del Fuego, and other sub-Antarctic Islands. They do not live in Antarctica proper. Fossil evidence shows that penguins evolved before the dinosaurs died out, and there are remains of giant, people-sized, prehistoric penguins. 2. The world’s smallest penguin stands just over 30cm high Pingüino". Diccionario de la lengua española (in European Spanish) (22nded.). Real Academia Española. Archived from the original on June 9, 2011. Del fr. pingouinOnce a year, penguins experience a catastrophic molt. (Yes, that’s the official term.) Most birds molt (lose feathers and regrow them) a few at a time throughout the year, but penguins lose them all at once. They can’t swim and fish without feathers, so they fatten themselves up beforehand to survive the 2 –3 weeks it takes to replace them.

International), BirdLife International (BirdLife (August 7, 2018). "IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: Macaroni Penguin". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Archived from the original on March 4, 2020 . Retrieved June 2, 2020. Jadwiszczak, P. (2009). "Penguin past: The current state of knowledge". Polish Polar Research. 30: 3–28. Archived from the original on March 7, 2022 . Retrieved November 13, 2014. Meyer-Rochow V.B. (2015). "Examples of four incompletely resolved aspects of the biology of penguins elated to digestive and reproductive physiology, vision and locomotion". In Jenkins Owen P. (ed.). Advances in Animal Science and Zoology. Hauppauge, N.Y.: Nova Sci Publ Inc. pp.65–80. ISBN 978-1-63483-328-8. Another adaptive gland—the oil (also called preen) gland—produces waterproofing oil. Penguins spread this across their feathers to insulate their bodies and reduce friction when they glide through the water.The white-flippered penguin( Eudyptula albosignata) is a recently-identified penguin that’s the subject of much dispute in the taxonomic community. It is very closely related to the little penguin and some taxonomists believe it to be a subspecies rather than a species in its own right. Greenpeace has been working with scientists to study penguin colonies in the Antarctic, and they’ve made some scary findings. Penguin numbers in the colonies they studied have dropped by almost 60% – with some colonies losing as much as 77% of their population since they were last counted in the early 1970s. The scientists here are talking about a ‘fundamentally changed’ ecosystem, and say that all the evidence they have points to climate change as the main culprit.