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Penguins are flightless seabirds of the Southern Hemisphere. Their wings have become flippers. Dense plumage shields them from the cold. They range from Antarctica to the Galápagos Islands. They swim with great agility underwater. Many nest in large colonies.
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Spheniscidae
Pygoscelis adeliae · Least concern
The Adélie penguin carries the name of an explorer's wife: Jules Dumont d'Urville, who discovered it in 1840, named Adélie Land for his wife, Adèle, and the penguin took its name from that land. It is one of only four penguins that nest on the Antarctic continent itself and, with the emperor, the most southerly of all.
Photo: Nanosmile = Reinhard Jahn, Mannheim (CC BY-SA 2.0 de)
Spheniscidae
Pygoscelis antarcticus · Least concern
In 2004 two male chinstrap penguins at Central Park Zoo in New York, Roy and Silo, paired up and took turns trying to hatch a rock; a keeper gave them a fertile egg, and they raised the chick. The species is named for the thin black band under its head, and is also called the stonecracker penguin.
Photo: Christopher Michel (CC BY 2.0)
Spheniscidae
Pygoscelis papua · Least concern
Among gentoo penguins, stones are worth a fight. Each nest is a round pile of them up to 20 cm high, jealously guarded, and their ownership sparks noisy quarrels and even fights. The gentoo is also the fastest swimmer of all penguins, reaching 36 km/h underwater, and the third largest after the emperor and king penguins.
Photo: Godot13 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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