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While most penguins are monogamous, they spend most of their year apart.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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There are 17 to 20 species of penguins, depending on which scientist you ask.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Some prehistoric penguin species attained enormous sizes, becoming as tall or as heavy as an adult human.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The oldest known fossil penguin species lived in the early Paleocene epochof New Zealand,
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Penguins can jump up to 6 feet (1.8 m) out of the water.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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1 in 50,000 penguins are born with brown rather than black plumage.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Penguins have an organ near the eye that filters salt from the water out of their system.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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In order to discover that penguins sleep more deeply in the afternoon, scientists crept up on sleeping penguins at different times of the day and poked them with a stick until they woke up.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The Emperor Penguin is able to dive to depths of over 500m and stay under water for up to 27 minutes.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Roles are reversed on Emperor Penguin: the Male incubates the egg while she goes out to feed.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Magellanic penguins always return to same mate after solo journeys totalling 200,000 miles.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Scientists can locate colonies of Penguins from space just by looking for dark ice patches of penguin poop.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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In 2008, Norway knighted a penguin.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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In 2009, snipers were deployed in Australia to protect a colony of little penguins from predators.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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There are no penguinsin the Arctic.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Seals like to have sex with penguins.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Penguins generally only lay one brood. The exception is the little penguin, which can raise two or three broods in a season.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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When penguin mothers lose a chick, they sometimes attempt to "steal" another mother's chick.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The most northerly penguins live in the Galapagos Islands.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Penguins are able to control blood flow to their extremities, reducing the amount of blood that gets cold, but still keeping the extremities from freezing.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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It is illegal for U.S. citizens to eat penguins.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Most penguins swim underwater at 4 to 7 mph.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Penguins spend about half of their lives on land and half in the oceans.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Penguins don't have teeth. Instead, they have backward-facing fleshy spines that line the inside of their mouths.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Once a year, penguins replace their old feathers by new ones.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The largest living species of Penguins is the Emperor Penguin. They are about 1.1 m (3 ft 7 in) tall and weigh about 35 kg (77 lb).♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Penguins can't taste sweet or savory flavors, only sour and salty ones.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The African penguin is also known as the jackass penguin, due to its donkey-like braying sounds.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Many species of penguins gift mates with rocks.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
