Can you say "P" for Penguin. Penguins are stout-bodied, short-legged, flightless birds superbly adapted for swimming underwater. Their wings resemble flippers and their bodies are covered with short, scaly feathers with downy bases. They are found in the colder waters of oceans of the Southern Hemisphere, breeding near the equator on the Galapagos Archipelago, in southern South America and Africa, in Australia and New Zealand, and on many islands. Only two species, the adelie and the emperor, breed in Antarctica. They swim underwater with powerful strokes of their wings and use their webbed feet and stiff tail as rudders. Sometimes they make a series of leaps from the surface at speeds approaching 40 km/h (25 mph). They usually feed on small crustaceans (krill), fish, and squid near the surface, however the emperor may dive up to 260 m (850 ft) in search of food. Penguins gather into large colonies to breed, returning year after year to the same rookery. To understand more about this amazing bird, watch "March of the Penguins". I was amaze at the measures the female and male took to protect the baby chick under extreme conditions. Imagine that!

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