10 Controversial Facts About Penguins

One similarity between “The Amazing Penguin Race” and “Saving Penguins, One Sweater At A Time” is the conflict. In both stories people are trying to save penguins that have been harmed. An example is, when the humans were trying to save the penguins life “ All they care about is saving your life” (Tarshis 17). This quote is significant, because people were coming to help the penguins. The oil spill was horrible and if the people did not save them in time

The story of “Peacock In The Land Of Penguins”, written by B. J. Gallagher Hateley and Warren H. Schmidt was a uniquely structured book filling pages with short stanzas and at least one illustration of what’s going on in the story Bj Gallagher is known for writing books or making speeches about empowerment and understanding in ways that could be universally understood in our society. In this book it’s no different in being able to tackle mature situations in a way that even children can understand. She was competent in being able to bring these characters to life because the peacock was molded after Bj’s own personality and experiences. Personally, I wouldn’t have expected someone who had a doctorate from the University of Southern California

One of the reason why the Macaroni penguin is on this is is the abiotic and the biotic factors of the ecosystem that the Macaroni penguin lives in. Some of the abiotic factors are that the oil spills over the past years have affected the water that the penguins swim in and it is killing them and the food. Another abiotic factor that has be affecting the penguins is climate change. The climate change has affected the animal by warming of the water temperature and air temperature. This is the thing that as change the most to make the penguin on the endangered list. All of these other factors we here before this and global warming is affecting this animal in a bad way like many other arctic animals.

The article I found is about the endangerment of african penguins. The african penguin is endangered, and many laws have been put into place in South Africa to protect them, mainly preventing fishing so they have a stable food supply. The article talks about how fisherman are a big cause for the penguins dying out, and how the prevention of fishing has greatly increased their population. However, despite all the efforts to protect them, it still isn't enough to get them off the endangered species list. The penguins still face many dangers like water pollution and climate changes that destroy their habitats. African penguins also had a 90% decrease in population size from the 1930’s to early 2000’s. However in the last 10 years the population

The Galapagos Penguin (scientifically known as Spheniscus Mendiculus), is one of the smallest types of penguin on the planet and is the easiest to distinguish as it lives the furthest north than any other penguin species. It has distinctive white marks on its face, beak and chest as well as a “C” shaped line that stretches across its upper body. The Galapagos Penguins are native to the Galapagos islands, they live in colonies and are sedentary meaning that they only venture as far as 3 miles away. Sadly, they are currently listed as endangered by many sources such as WWF (Worldwide Fund) with numbers fewer than 2000.

They exhibit a polygynous mating system, which means they have one-male and multi-female groups. The male’s large home ranges envelop the home ranges of several females. The males will mate with all the females in their home range and even some in extending home ranges. Females will also mate with members of different home ranges. The two remain together for several days while mating and will copulate several times in that period. Litters are usually fathered by one male, and the males will defend and mark their territory while mating. Females will mate every other year from May to August. They will stay in heat from June to August, and most mating will occur in June or July. Most interestingly females display a delayed implantation where the embryo is not implanted immediately at copulation but actually waits in diapause for about six months. Fertilized eggs develop to the blastocyst and will remain there until implantation to the uterine wall which typically occurs in the months from December to February. This means pregnancy may last anywhere from 120 to 272 days. Which will depend on when the embryo is fertilized and when it is implanted. Parturition is perfectly timed for the optimum survival of their young, which is usually when the most food is available. Females build snow-dens to birth and nurse their young. They typically have two dens, a natal den for giving birth and then when this den is

A key element in the life of any individual is to be able to reproduce. Nonhuman primates number only 250 species but display great diversity in grouping patterns. We call some of these types of groupings a one male polygyny or monogamy. However, the main focus today is that these primates have evolved different strategies, behavioral and ecological, to cop with the need to balance limited food supplies while avoiding predators with intensions of mating and or harming their offspring. It has been assumed that in order for male primates to reach mating success, they must have to take on the task of always being present to the female and her offspring’s. I believe that I will argue that monogamy and one male polygyny are different yet both

Emperor penguins are majestic creatures; their life cycle portrayed in the film "March of the Penguins" shows a lifecycle fraught with dangers, including exposure to extreme environmental conditions and aggressive predators. Despite the challenges, the breed has survived. It may be argued that survival is the result of natural selection and the adaptations which have developed, but it is also argued luck plays a role.

When the creatures still managed to reanimate after thawing, the team looked for physical qualities that might explain this superior resilience. It found that the Alaskan frogs stockpile astonishing amounts of a complex sugar called glycogen in their livers, which grow 1.5-fold relative to body mass as the amphibians prepare for winter. “This frog is like a walking liver,” says zoologist Jon Costanzo of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, who led the research. The liver later converts this glycogen to glucose, a known cryoprotectant that quickly gets distributed to all the cells in the body when temperatures drop. The Alaskan frogs also accumulated about three times as much of the cryoprotectant urea in their blood plasma compared with frogs

Penguins lives in north pole. penguin eats fish, ray fish, squid, cod, krill and shrimp. They live for 10 years to 25 years. Penguins huddle up to keep warm because to protect them. A penguin is a bird but it cant fly. Baby penguins are born with out feathers. Penguins dive 50 to 60 feet to catch their food. when baby penguins are about 4 weeks old they huddle up to keep warm.

Emperor penguins (Aptenodytes forsteri) in the Antarctic are fascinating flightless birds that are able to withstand incredibly harsh environments, where wind chills can reach to -76°F. Even though these penguins are able to survive the freezing temperatures, their breeding success and mortality rates are based primarily on the sea ice concentration (SIC) and sea ice extent (SIE) throughout the seasons. Sea ice concentration is a variable for climate scientists and nautical navigators to find the area of sea ice compared to the total at a given point in the ocean, whereas sea ice extent refers to a region as “ice-covered” or “not ice-covered.” During the late 1970s, there was an elongated atypical warm period with reduced

The birds live in many areas in the United States--around freshwater and seawater. They are birds of prey with a wingspan of 60’’. They are white bodied with a black stripe coming from their eye to their wings which are black also.

More than 20 football fields of trees are removed each minute. Logging can affect plants and animals by losing their homes. Predator - prey relationships will alter which can then cause a trophic cascade by overpopulation from the prey or extinction of predators. Also keystone species could be removed by these factors. So these living and nonliving factors could affect an ecosystem in many ways. Changes affect the ecosystem strongly in ways which population could boost in biodiversity or severely diminish the population of both plants and animals.

The king penguins favorite food is fish and some squid. In colonies in the open they have territories but no nest. The male penguins size is 16.0 kg ,and a female size is 14.3 kg. The scientific name is the aptenodytes patagonicus. No other penguins have a longer breeding cycle then the King penguins.

There are different types of mating systems such as monogamy and polygamy. The sea lion species uses a polygynous mating system. A polygynous mating system is defined as “one male mate with multiple females within a breeding season” (Flatz, R. et al,2012). The females and males of Sea Lions have different behaviors when reproducing. The females can only produce a limited number of offspring therefore they maximize their success by producing high quality offspring. There are numerous ways the male does to ensure their genes are passed on to the next generation such as aggression. The males maximize their reproductive success by mating with many females to