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No penguins in Antarctica, no penguins in the Arctic!
The climate in the Arctic and the Antarctic is equally cold and icy, so why are there no penguins in the Arctic? In fact, the "Arctic great penguin" survived in the Arctic a long time ago, only now it is extinct.
The Great Arctic Penguin "is 60 cm tall, has a brown head and black feathers on its back, and is gentlemanly. They once lived in millions of people in Scandinavia, the current regions of Canada and northern Russia, and on all Arctic and subarctic islands.
About 1,000 years ago, the Vikings spotted the great penguins. From then on, the great penguin's doom came. Especially after the 16th century, the Arctic exploration boom, and the great penguins became the object of competition among explorers, navigators and indigenous people.
Prolonged hunting led to the extinction of the Arctic great penguin.
The ancestors of penguins living in the Antarctic region today developed south of the equator. Scientists speculate that the reason why they don't continue their journey north to the Northern Hemisphere may be that penguins can't tolerate the warm waters of the tropics. Their range is very consistent with the northernmost range and the average annual temperature of 20 regions.
Warm equatorial currents and higher temperatures form a natural barrier that prevents penguins from crossing the equator to the north. They can only live in the seas where water from melting Antarctic snow or colder currents from the deep sea pass through.
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South Pole. There are no penguins in the Arctic.
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Antarctic penguins: Polar bears.
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There is no in the Arctic, there is in the South. South America and New Zealand also have them.
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Pengunis is obviously in Antarctica, I am!
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Penguins in the Antarctic or in the Arctic.
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Just think about why polar bears starve to death and don't even eat them.
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There are no penguins in the Arctic, penguins are branched out in Antarctica. But the "Arctic great penguin" once survived in the Arctic, only now it is extinct.
Penguins usually live south of the equator and can only be seen off the beaten track. Some penguins live in cold places and some penguins live in tropical places. But penguins don't really like hot weather, and they are only happy in cold climates.
So, in the icy ocean off the coast of Antarctica, far away, there are the largest number of penguins living there.
Penguins mainly live in the Southern Hemisphere, and there are 17 or 18 known species of penguins in the world, most of which are distributed in the Antarctic region, and there are also penguins in Cape Town, a tourist city in South Africa, on the hot African continent. Among them, the Hambold penguins, Magellanic penguins and black-footed penguins of the genus Ringed Penguins are distributed in temperate regions with lower latitudes, while the distribution of Galapagos penguins is closer to the equator. There are only two types of penguins, emperor and Adélie penguins, that live completely in the polar regions.
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There were penguins in the Arctic, but they weren't penguins, they were penguin-like animals, and their name was great puffins. In fact, the great puffin is the real penguin, and the English word penguin: penguin, originally meant the great puffin.
The current penguin is mistaken for a relative of the great puffin, so we call it a penguin now.
In addition to being good at swimming, scientists also found that 100 million years ago, penguins were a kind of flying birds, because of climate change, Antarctica was cold all year round, there were no big trees suitable for growth, and the penguins that lived in the trees lost their foothold, and gradually, penguins changed from flying birds to today's animals. This is the law of nature"Natural selection, survival of the fittest"。
Penguin knowledge: 1. Penguins are usually not afraid of humans, and a wild penguin usually lives between 15-20 years old, and about 75% of it is spent in water. Penguins spend a few hours a day grooming or caring for their feathers, and if their feathers are not properly maintained, their feathers will not remain waterproof.
2. Penguins have a normal body temperature of about 100°F (38°C), most penguin breeds in spring and summer, and eggs hatch for anywhere from 1 month to 67 days, depending on the species. Penguins are highly social birds, and even at sea, penguins usually swim and forage in groups, with a single big penguin catching up to 30 fish in a single dive.
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Many penguin species now live in Antarctica, and there are no penguins in the Arctic. However, there is one species of penguin that once lived in the Arctic region, called the "Arctic Great Penguin". Originally, this penguin was widely distributed and abundant in the Arctic, but it became extinct due to various reasons such as human hunting.
The penguins that currently exist have adapted to the environment of the Antarctic region and are unable to live in the Arctic. And there are also polar bears in the Arctic, which will eat penguins for food.
Penguins are a creature that we are all familiar with, and they live in very cold polar regions. The North and South Poles are polar regions, but penguins only live in the Antarctic region, and many penguin species currently live in the Antarctic region. In the Arctic, there are no penguins.
However, the absence of penguins in the Arctic just refers to the current situation.
There is a species of penguin that once lived in the Arctic called the "Arctic Great Penguin". This penguin is around 60 centimeters tall; The back is black, the head is brown, and the belly is white, and it looks a lot like a well-dressed gentleman. In fact, they were originally very widely distributed in the surrounding areas of the Arctic, in the north of Canada, Russia and other countries, as well as in Scandinavia, and the number is very large.
However, it has since become extinct for various reasons, among which human hunting is an important reason.
As mentioned above, penguins are currently only found in the Antarctic region and are not found in the Arctic region. However, there was once a species of penguin that lived in the Arctic, but it is now extinct. Penguins living in Antarctica have adapted to the environment of Antarctica, and although Antarctic and Arctic are both polar regions and have the same latitude, the climate and environment of the two regions are very different, because of the different land and sea layouts of the two places.
As a result, penguins are generally unable to live in the Arctic and may not be adaptable. Another important reason is that there are polar bears in the Arctic region, which will eat penguins.
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South Pole. Penguins, known as the ship of the sea, are one of the oldest migratory birds, and they probably settled in Antarctica before the Earth put on ice armor. There are 18 species of penguins in the world, most of which are found in the Southern Hemisphere. It belongs to the order Penguin, the penguin family. <
Penguins live in Antarctica. Penguins, known as the ship of the sea, are one of the oldest migratory birds, and they probably settled in Antarctica before the Earth put on ice armor. There are 18 species of penguins in the world, most of which are found in the Southern Hemisphere.
It belongs to the order Penguin, the penguin family. It is characterized by the inability to fly, the feet are born in the lowest part of the body, so it is in an upright position, plantar (other birds land on the ground with their toes), the forelimbs are fin-shaped, the feathers are short to reduce friction and turbulence, and a layer of air is retained between the feathers to keep warm. The back is black and the belly is white.
The main differences between species are the color of the head and the size of the individual.
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Penguins live in Antarctica, because there is no land in the Arctic, and the earth did not have the conditions for birds to originate before the earth cooled. Penguins were once faced with an evolutionary choice, choosing to fly in the air or choose to swim nimbly underwater. Usually as the wings become more efficient when penguins are diving, their ability to fly becomes weaker.
At some point, flying becomes very strenuous, so the best option is to give up flying and let the wings shrink into flippers.
Although the Antarctic is extremely cold, penguins have been tempered by tens of millions of years of snowstorms, and their feathers have become overlapping and densely scaled. This special feather coat is not only difficult to penetrate by seawater, but the temperature is nearly 100 degrees Celsius below zero, and it is not easy to break through its thermal insulation defense. Antarctica has a lot of land and a wide sea surface, and the abundant marine plankton is abundant food for penguins**.
The penguin is an ancient migratory bird known as the "boat of the ocean". It is likely that they settled in Antarctica before Earth put on ice armor. Penguins feed mainly on Antarctic krill, but sometimes some brachiopods, squid, and small fish.
Penguins swim very fast, with emperor penguins swimming about 10 kilometers an hour and white-capped penguins swimming 36 kilometers in an hour, making them the fastest of all birds. There are 18 species of penguins in the world, and the smallest penguin species is the little blue penguin (also known as fairy penguin), which is 40 centimeters tall and weighs 1 kilogram.
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