Penguin Goodies
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Cool Penguin facts
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Penguins make good parents. They often keep the same mate for life and both parents take turns incubating the eggs and feeding and protecting chicks.
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A wild penguin eats close to 14 percent of its body weight each day. For a 150 pound (68 kg) person, that would be like eating 21 pounds (9.5 kg) of food a day!
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Penguins can shoot their poop up to 3 feet! Projectile defecation allows them to keep their nest clean while incubating eggs and raising chicks.
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African penguins can swim up to 12 miles per hour while hunting. That is more than twice as fast as Michael Phelps!
To keep warm in the cold water, African penguins have a double layer of insulation: densely packed feathers over a soft layer of down. On land, they face the opposite problem and can overheat in hot sun. To keep cool, they pant and pump blood to parts of their bodies with less insulation — wings, faces and feet — where excess heat can escape.
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