More Penguins

emperor-penguins

Family

Penguins live together in groups. All the adult penguins help look after the all baby penguins.

Penguins live in cold places.
They have thick layers of fat and feathers. This helps to keep their bodies warm.

Penguins love cold weather. In summer they get very hot. They keep cool by holding their wings away from their bodies.

Types

There are many different types of pengins. Emperor penguins are the biggest. They are 120 cm tall and can weigh 40 kilograms. Their cheeks look orange.

Emperor penguins live in the Antartic.


King Penguins


King penguins are a little smaller than Emperor penguins, but they are big, too. Then there are the Peruvian penguins. They live in Peru in South America.

The Peruvian penguins are small. But the smallest penguins are the Adele penguins. These are all quite small.



Where Penguins live


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