Penguins are short, fat and look as if they are dressed in a black suit. From a distance, they could be mistaken fo people!

Penguins cannot fly but they can swim very well and spend most of their lives in the sea.These birds use their wings to move forward in the water.they can take very short flights, like hens, to come out of the water on to land.

Penguins have short legs and when they want to move fast, they slide on ice on their bellies.penguins eat fish and squids.

Emperor penguins are the largest of the seventeen of penguins. They can grow to about half the height of an adult person. They live on pack ice in Antarctica.

Penguins enjoy the company of each other and they live in groups. A group of penguins is called a colony or a rookery.rookeries may contain thousands of penguins. (As many as twenty-four million penguins like on the Antarctic continent !) Even at sea, they usually swim and feed in groups. 

Penguins have a trick layer of fat called blubber which helps them keep warm.The feathers of a penguins are shiny and waterproof.Penguins have more feathers than most other birds.These feathers also help them to stay warm and dry. Each year, penguins moult, losing their old feathers and growing new ones. 

 It is extremely cold in the Antarctic regions, so penguins have ways to keep warm.When the cold winds blow, penguins takes turns in moving to the center of the huddle. Ones a penguin has warmed a bit, it will move to the edge of the group so that others get a turn to be in the center.

Emperor penguins do not build nests like most other birds do.The mother penguins lays a single egg and then leaves it behind to go on a long hunting trip that lasts almost two months!

The father penguin keeps the newly laid egg warm, but does not sit no it, as many other birds do.The father stands and protect his egg from the cold, the wind and animals, by balancing the egg on his feet and covering it with his feathered skin.During this two-month period of babysitting, the father eats nothing and bravely faces the bitter cold. 

When the mother penguin returns, she brings a bellyful of food for the newly hatched chick.After the chick are born, their mothers come back to take care of them.

At first, the fathers don't want to give up the babies, but after a while they pass them on to the mothers.They have to be very careful when they shift the chick to the feet of the mother penguin, because if the chick falls on the icy ground for more than a few minutes, it will die. 

After the mother has the chick.the father penguin hurries off to get himself something to eat. Can you imagine going for two months without eating? 

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