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Please if you can, give me any facts about any kind of penguin, preferably Little Blue or Macaroni penguins, any fun facts or important details.

2006-12-20 13:35:48 · 4 answers · asked by EPS 1 in Science & Mathematics Zoology

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Don't know much about these penguins, but I think the coolest ones are the rock hoppers. They are small penguins that live in a warmer climate on rocky islands and hop from rock to rock.

2006-12-20 13:45:32 · answer #1 · answered by expatmt 5 · 0 0

Little Penguins are the smallest of all the penguins standing only 16 to 17 inches tall (41 to 44 cm) and weighing only about 2 lbs. (1 kilogram). They are sometimes called the "Little Blue penguin", "Fairy penguin", and "Blue penguin". It is called "blue" because of the indigo-blue and slate-gray color of the feathers. There are two sub-species recognized: the Little, or Fairy penguin and the White-flippered penguin.

The White-flippered penguins have a white stripe around the edges of the flippers and are located in New Zealand. Little penguins breed and live on the coast of Southern Australia, Tasmania, and several sub-Antarctic Islands south of New Zealand. Some scientists believe the White-flippered penguins to be the eighteenth penguin species. The total population is estimated to be about 500,000 breeding pairs.

The Little penguins prefer the warm waters off southern Australia and New Zealand. They hunt small fish and squid in the shallow waters close to the shore during the day. At night they come onshore after dark to sleep and return to the waters before dawn each morning. Since they feed in the shallow waters close to shore they are easy to see from land.

for other kinds of penguin check the site

2006-12-20 23:17:15 · answer #2 · answered by jamaica 5 · 1 0

Here's a website you can look at, it has lots of info o Little Blue Penguins.http://www.antarcticconnection.com/antarctic/wildlife/penguins/fairy.shtml

2006-12-20 21:45:58 · answer #3 · answered by leslie 6 · 0 0

Try this webpage I found.
http://www.penguins.cl/little-penguins.htm
Then click on any of the choices at the top to learn about other things about penguins.

2006-12-20 21:45:18 · answer #4 · answered by Ladybugtjc 2 · 1 0

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