Facts about Penguins! By Albert Brewer 3D

What do penguins eat

• Penguins eat Fish• They need a lot of fish

to feed the whole colony

Distinguishing featuresDistinguishing features

• Penguins are a type Penguins are a type of bird but they can of bird but they can not fly.not fly.

• They slide around on They slide around on their tummies' to get their tummies' to get to far away places to far away places quickly.quickly.

• Penguins have flaps Penguins have flaps behind their ears that behind their ears that can open and close.can open and close.

Female penguins

chicks look like this• Female penguins lay eggs.• Inside the eggs are baby penguins.• They are called chicks• female penguins have to go on hunts

for fish while the male stays with the chick.

• The female penguins will usually take a few weeks to get back to the male and its chick.

Male penguins

• By the time the female penguin gets back from hunting for fish the male will be very hungry.

• Male penguins fight to get a mate. The one who wins the fight gets the female penguin.

Threats to penguins!• Leopard seals, Sea lions, Orca whales,

Australian eagles, Skuas, ferrets, cats snakes, lizards, foxes and rats are some of their predators.

• They also have threats caused by humans like people over fishing so they have no food and their ships leak oil out into the ocean.

This is cold!

I know!

shush guys!

Your embarrassing me.

The tundra biome

• The tundra biome is very cold and is made up of ice.

• The tundra biome has very cold winters and short summers

• The tundra biome is the coldest biome

• Not much plants can grow there because the earth underneath the soil is frozen.

• It can have very, very strong and cold blizzards