is there such thing as a penguin that can survive in florida? (warm weather)?

Answer 1

The farthest north penguins live naturally is South Africa, on islands that are frozen.
They probably couldn't survive in warm weather. They are adapted for the cold.

Answer 2

If penguins lived in the northern hemisphere, climatically there is no reason at least one species could not be found in Florida. There is, however, not a great deal of food in the warm sub-tropical waters of Florida.

Those penguins that live in hot climates include the four spheniscus penguins of Africa and South America with birds being found well into the tropics on the west coasts of both continents because of the cold, nutrient rich water along the west coasts. The little penguin of southern Australia and new Zealand also survives happily in hot weather and the New Zealand penguins, the fjordland and yellow eyed get hot weather occasionally. The erect crested, and Snares Island penguins are well to the south and get cooler weather.

Answer 3

There are 17 species of penguins, with four being warm weathered species.

the Magellanic penguin is the largest of the warm weather penguins, with the Galapagos penguin the smallest. There are also Black Footed African Penguins and Humboldt as the other two.

Florida is probably to humid and hot for even the warm weather penguins, but you should ask a penguin expert if that really is the case.

Answer 4

I live in the Midwest and visit a zoo here frequently that has penguins out in the warm air during the summer, so my guess would be they could survive it, since they can survive 90 degree days out in the open.

Answer 5

Yes--there is a tropical penguin that is endemic to the Galapagos Islands. See link below.