How come penguins cant fly?
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They have alot of fat for insulation, and they dont have the write type of wings or feathers.
628986
Freezing cold temperatures, no food for months, and protecting their young. Try watching march of the penguins, you can probably download it at www.limewire.com. It'll be quick if you have a high speed connection. Good luck.
74932
Swimming penguins have a colour scheme pretty similar to most other swimming (or flying) animals - light bottom and dark top side, in order to reduce contrast with the bottom or the surface when viewed from above or below. The colour scheme looks funny only when they are outside of the water and move bipedally, presenting the white underbelly to the front and the dark top to the behind.
120310
penguins live in an arctic biome.
988952
because gravity points to the center of the sphere, so no matter where you are on teh sphere, the down direction is towards the center of teh planet, wich allows penguins in teh south pole to walk on teh surface of the planet.\nIf you look at constelation however, they do appear upside down when viewed from below the equator, proving that we are walking on a sphere
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Penguins, like other flightless birds (ostriches and emus) evolved from birds that could fly.\n\n65 million years ago the ancestors of today's penguins flew over the ocean and dove down into the water for food.\n\nOver millions of years, their hollow bones became solid and they could no longer lift themselves out of the water to fly. But, their heavier bones made is easier for them to dive down into the water.
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Penguins do not live at the north pole. They live at the south pole, New Zeland, and southern africa.
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They do fly.\n\nWhere are you getting your misinformation?
871568
There are several species of penguins that live on islands near Antarctica.  They might be able to adapt to similar islands or mainland habitats in the north.  The species that live on the Antarctic continent would have a harder time since there is no habitat that is like that.  They depend on the fact that there are no land predators on Antarctica attacking them while they breed.\n\nThe mainlands of the north have all sorts of predators that would disrupt the penguin breeding cycle. The Arctic ice pack is too unstable to substitute for the land and ice shelves of Antarctica.\n\nBesides if polar bears do become extinct it will probably be because of the loss of sea ice which they live on while hunting seals.
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They start getting their feet wet when the downward mass exactly equals the mass of water displaced by the block of ice (Alchimedes principle).\n\nVolume of block of ice = 9 x 9 x 0.5 = 40.5 m3\n\nTherefore mass of seawater displaced = 40.5 x 1025 = 41,512.5 kg\n\nThe ice weighs 40.5 * 917 = 37,138.5 kg\n\nTherefore the difference, 4374 kg must be the penguins.\n\nThey weigh 19 kg each, so there must be...\n\n4374 / 19 = 230.21 penguins.\n\nSo if there are 231 of them they get their feet wet (230 wouldn't quite).
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Not without human involvement.\n\nThere was the great auk, a species of flightless bird which occupies much the same ecological niche in northern Atlantic, which was the original bearer of the name "penguin". Its smaller cousins, the auks, retain the ability to fly.
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The real answer is that waterbirds have a really clever method of stoping the cold blood from their feet mixing with the blood from their bodies, and vice versa. \n\nAs blood flows into the feet it passes right beside the blood flowing out. Most of  the heat is drawn from the warm blood before it reaches the feet, but enough heat remains to prevent the feet from freezing.  \n\nThe blood then leaves the feet, passing close to fresh blood coming in. The cold blood draws the heat form the warm blood, and thus warms up before it enters the body again.  That prevents the duck form getting cold even though its feet are just a few degrees above freezing.\n\nThis system is most well developed in the penguins, some of which spend months at a time standing on ice.  If the solution was simply that the feet contained no nerves or blood vessels the penguins may not feel cold,  but there feet would freeze solid and shatter into a million pieces as soon as they tried to move them.\n\n_____________________________\n>>>>Ducks' feet have no nerves or blood vessels. \n\nThis is just nonsense of course. If a ducks feet have no blood vessels then how exactly do you think they supply oxygen to the cells?
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My pet Emu -Larry- says you are mistaken. In reality birds do not fly. See, you were outside, enjoying a lovely day when you stumbled upon a group of kids playing in the park. What you saw was nothing more than a fowl ball.
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... Birds can't jump? So, 6?
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No. Penguins, like all other birds, do not have teeth. The chicks do have an egg tooth, but this is not a real tooth, but rather a sharp bump on the top surface of the bill which is used to break the egg when hatching.\nPenguins do have rearward-pointing, tooth-like barbs on the tongue and roof of the mouth. These are not used for chewing, but instead assist in the swallowing of their slippery prey. GOT IT?
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Don't have a clue.  I have the same problem, but it's not penguins, but those darn Serta Matress sheep.  I ask my doctor about it and he prescribed medicine to me and said that would make them go away.  Now I am trying to figure how to make those sheep take the pills.
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Penguins have a very difficult time climbing uphill, armadillos live in very warm climates-flat areas.  Meerkats could do it, and are faster.