Common belief: penguins and polar bears live wherever there is a lot of ice and snow. Although both species prefer extreme conditions, but in natural environment they don't live in the same area. The polar bears liked the Arctic, which the penguins did not like - they preferred Antarctica.

Polar bears have chosen the North Pole, and penguins - the South. Clubfoot enjoys a life associated with drifting ice. They would not have gone to land at all, if not for the period of raising babies. Bear cubs are born in dens on land, and as adults, they get used to life on floating ice.

The main "bear maternity hospitals" are located in the Arctic - on about. Vrungel, Severnaya Zemlya, Franz Josef Land. Male polar bears are eternal wanderers. They are excellent swimmers and are able to swim more than a hundred kilometers.

About 25 thousand individuals live around the North Pole. True, polar bears do not like the pollution of the seas and global warming. These majestic beauties live near the northern coasts of Eurasia and America on floating ice. They are also found on the territory of Russia, on the islands of the Arctic Ocean.

Some wonder: could polar bear live without ice? The answer to this question was given by nature itself, as well as to the question of where penguins and polar bears live. In the 60s, a colony of individuals was discovered on the coast of Hudson Bay (Canada). The bears spent most of their time on the ice, feeding on seals.

During the period when the ice melted, they went deep into the mainland. Moulting birds and their eggs became their food. But due to global warming, the population has almost halved in 10 years - from 1600 to 900 individuals. Because of the melting ice, the bears simply did not have enough of their usual food.

And what will happen if the penguins are still settled in the Arctic? According to the director of the Museum of the Arctic and Antarctic, Viktor Boyarsky, the population simply would not have survived there - there is no ecological niche. For natural movement towards the Arctic, there are no currents that unite the North and South Poles. tropical belt for penguins - an insurmountable barrier.

The polar bear does not even look into the territory where the birds live. After all, there are no extensive floating ice with polynyas. And this is the main "love" of polar bears. Therefore, in the habitats of penguins, clubfoot from the Arctic would not have survived either. They wouldn't be able to get their own food. Yes, and the nature of Antarctica is poorer, only rich undersea world. But polar bears have a chance to occupy these spaces. After all, the ice in the Artik is gradually melting. In the northern part of Antarctica, on the contrary, they are increasing.

Penguins like the Southern Hemisphere. They can be found in Antarctica and on the islands adjacent to the continent. There are also penguin colonies in Peru, in southern Brazil and even in Africa (southwestern part)! There are penguins in New Zealand and even in southern Australia. There are 16 different types, all of them are perfectly adapted to the aquatic way of life. True, they prefer a different landscape. Most prefer a rocky surface, but some love sandy beaches and grassy areas. There are even colonies of penguins that have preferred coastal forests.

Good day, curious know-it-alls!

Today, to help parents and young students, we are preparing material for grade 1 on the world around us. Almost everyone who has been to the zoo has seen funny birds that do not know how to fly at all, but walk imposingly, waddling, or slide down ice slides right into the water. Guess who I'm talking about? Yes, today we are talking about penguins.

Does everyone know where penguins live, or maybe there are those who doubt at which pole they can be found, do they surf the waters of the Arctic Ocean day after day or gurgle around the coasts of Australia and Africa? Duck, in the Arctic or Antarctic, in the South or North? Let's figure it out!

Lesson plan:

Who are penguins and where can they be found?

So we know what it is sea ​​birds, they do not fly, but they swim perfectly and this is, perhaps, almost all that we know about these clumsy and amazing creatures with white belly and black back.

According to the great Internet, there are already 3 versions of the origin of the name of these inquisitive animals:

  1. according to the first of them, the penguin is a follower of the white-winged auk, which died out in the 19th century, which outwardly was very similar to it, also could not fly, also clubfooted on land, it was the sailors who used to call it the penguin;
  2. according to the second version, the name of the bird is associated with the translation from English as a hairpin wing, which again belonged to the appearance of the previously mentioned white-winged auk;
  3. the third version translates penguin from Latin as "fat".

Be that as it may, today we associate only one bird with this word, in which scientists have about 18 species. And before there were at least 40! After all, penguin ancestors more than 60 million years ago (or maybe all 100 million, it is still unclear) lived in a temperate climate at a time when their homeland Antarctica was not yet covered with a continuous layer of ice.

But centuries passed, the weather changed, and Antarctica shifted towards the South Pole, turning into one big ice floe. Many animals left, some died out, and only a few were able to adapt to the eternal cold. Among them are penguins.

Today, you can meet the penguin family throughout Antarctica, which covers Antarctica, which we have already mentioned, and the adjacent island territories of the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans. But do not confuse Antarctica with the Arctic, which is adjacent to North Pole on the other, directly opposite, side of our Earth.

Penguins do not live in the waters of the Arctic Ocean, but there you can find seals and walruses, baleen whales and polar bears.

So, we figured out the poles: penguins live in the South, in Antarctica, where their largest concentration is. You can also see these diving athletes in New Zealand, on the southwestern side of the Pacific Ocean, they have “flats” in Australia and South Africa, South America and Peru.

But this does not mean at all that penguins love to bask in the sun. They prefer coolness, because in the tropics they are only in those places where there are cold currents. They chose the warmest place only near the equator, on the Galapagos Islands in pacific ocean.

What are they?

All members of the penguin family swim and dive excellently, but slightly differ in appearance and place of residence. So,

  • There are only 2 species left in Antarctica:

- imperial, the largest of all, reaching 1.22 m in height and 22-45 kg in weight, with bright orange cheeks.
It is also called the Forster bird in honor of its discoverer, a naturalist from world travel the well-known Captain Cook.

- Adele, the most common and famous, named by a French explorer in honor of his wife.
There is no other such penguin representative in nature similar to Adele.

  • Close relatives of the emperor penguin, only a little shorter and weight and slightly brighter in color, the royal ones settled on the southern islands - Kerguelen in the Indian Ocean, South Georgia in the Atlantic, Tierra del Fuego, Macquarie in the Pacific Ocean.
  • The place of residence of the Papuan, very similar to the royal, was South Georgia and the Kerguelen archipelago. This species is distinguished by a white stripe running along the crown from one eye to the other. Its name is a real zoological incident, because penguins do not live in the homeland of the Papuans in New Guinea!
  • Crested, northernmost, with narrow yellow eyebrows, with tassels at the ends, fell in love with Tasmania and the coast South America. He jumps on the rocks there, pushing off the rhinestone with both paws and falling into the water like a “soldier”. The severity of his appearance is given by yellow feathers, starting from the nostrils and puffing like a fan behind the eyes.
  • The thick-billed representative, also called the Victoria penguin, outwardly similar to the yellow-browed crested one, preferred the south of New Zealand and the islands of Solander and Stewart for himself.
  • In Chile and Peru, there are Humboldt penguins, named after the German geographer who found them. This species is distinguished by its horseshoe-shaped white spots under the eyes, running across the back of the head to the chest.
  • To see a spectacled representative similar to Humboldt, also called donkey for his loud and unpleasant voice, you need to go to Namibia or South Africa.
  • On the island of Juan Fernandez and near the Brazilian Rio de Janeiro, you can meet a Magellanic species, also similar to its two relatives - spectacled and Humboldt. He only has two dark stripes on his chest, not one.
  • You will be able to communicate with the Galapagos species, inferior to the Magellanic one only in size, on the Galapagos islands of Fernandina and Isabela. He is there in the city alone, there are no other representatives on the islands.
  • In Australia and the Snare Islands, you can meet the great crested penguin. He is always surprised, because his eyebrows always bristle up.
  • Golden-haired, whose golden-yellow feathers descend from eye level all the way to the back, he settled in the Falkland Islands and southern Chile.
  • The little penguin, the shortest of all in height - about 40 cm, is called blue because of the bluish solid top. It can be seen off the coast of South Australia.
  • The white-winged species is also among the undersized and unremarkable, like the small one. It lives in Canterbury and western New Zealand.
  • The magnificent, or also called yellow-eyed, penguin "built a house" on the Campbell archipelago and the islands of Macquarie and the Bounty. From one eye to the other, he has a yellow stripe.

All of the above species are about 65-75 cm tall, with the exception of the imperial and royal ones. The weight of the smallest bird, for example, a small blue one, starts from 1 kg, middle view weighs 3.5-4 kg.

How do penguins live?

These clumsy on land animals in the water are real tightrope walkers. Their streamlined body shape is simply designed to move where they can pick up speed at an average of 10 km / h. However, if they are in a hurry, they can accelerate to all 20-25 km / h, breaking all records for the time spent under water.

So, the imperial is able to stay up to 18-20 minutes, diving to a depth of 530 meters!

All this is helped by the addition of a “bodybuilder”: the penguin muscles are so highly developed that any bodybuilder will envy, because swimming in conditions of water column resistance requires very strong wings-fins.

These animals also jump high. They, like candles, jump out of the water one after another onto the shore up to 1.8 meters high. And who said that on land they are slow. Rolling from side to side, thereby the birds save energy, but when you need to run with all your paws, they can overcome 3-6 km in an hour! And they also know how to easily move down the ice slides on the go, even on the back, even lying on the abdomen. Try it, catch up!

A thick layer of subcutaneous fat (2-3 cm), as many as 3 layers of waterproof feathers, between which the air cushion retains heat, helps the penguins not to freeze. They throw off their "business tuxedos" once a year in the summer, updating a slightly worn feather suit.

And also, in order not to freeze, they cluster together, gathering in small groups: it’s warmer together! So that no one is offended from the edges, those basking in the group constantly move from the center to the edge, from the edge to the very center. In total, a friendly penguin family can number from tens of thousands to millions of birds in one settlement!

In their daily menu mainly fish and crustaceans, which they swallow directly under water without getting out on land, for which they make about 200 dives per day.

Penguins live for about 25 years if people do not interfere with them.

Today, three species are on the verge of extinction - crested, magnificent and Galapagos.

Among the main reasons why these birds are hunted are their eggs and subcutaneous fat, from which oil is extracted. Some populations are declining due to lack of food due to abrupt change climate.
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Interesting lessons for you!

Penguin is flightless bird, which belongs to the penguin order, the penguin family (Spheniscidae).

The origin of the word "penguin" has 3 versions. The first suggests a combination of the Welsh words pen (head) and gwyn (white), which originally referred to the now-extinct great auk. Due to the similarity of the penguin with this bird, the definition was transferred to him. According to the second version, the name of the penguin gave English word pinwing, in translation meaning "hairpin wing". The third version is the Latin adjective pinguis, meaning "thick".

Penguin - description, characteristics, structure

All penguins can swim and dive excellently, but they cannot fly at all. On land, the bird looks rather awkward due to the structural features of the body and limbs. The penguin has a streamlined body shape with highly developed musculature of the pectoral keel, which often makes up a quarter of the total mass. The body of the penguin is quite well-fed, slightly compressed from the sides and covered with feathers. Not too large head is on a mobile, flexible and rather short neck. The penguin's beak is strong and very sharp.

As a result of evolution and lifestyle, penguin wings have changed into elastic flippers: when swimming under water, they rotate in the shoulder joint according to the screw principle. The legs are short and thick, have 4 fingers connected by swimming membranes.

Unlike other birds, the penguin's legs are significantly extended back, which forces the bird to keep its body strictly upright while on land.

To maintain balance, the penguin helps short tail, consisting of 16-20 hard feathers: if necessary, the bird simply leans on it, as if on a stand.

The skeleton of a penguin does not consist of hollow tubular bones, which is common for other birds: the bones of a penguin are more similar in structure to the bones of marine mammals. For optimal thermal insulation, the penguin has an impressive supply of fat with a layer of 2-3 centimeters.

The plumage of penguins is dense and dense: individual small and short feathers cover the body of a bird like a tile, protecting it from getting wet in cold water. The color of feathers in all species is almost identical - a dark (usually black) back and a white belly.

Once a year, the penguin molts: new feathers grow at different rates, pushing out the old feather, so the bird often has an untidy, ragged appearance during the molting period.

During molting, penguins are only on land, trying to hide from gusts of wind and eat absolutely nothing.

The sizes of penguins differ depending on the species: for example, the emperor penguin reaches 117-130 cm in length and weighs from 35 to 40 kg, while the little penguin has a body length of only 30-40 cm, while the weight of the penguin is 1 kg.

In search of food, penguins are able to spend a lot of time under water, plunging into its thickness by 3 meters and covering distances of 25-27 km. The speed of a penguin in the water can reach 7-10 km per hour. Some species dive to a depth of 120-130 meters.

In a period when the penguins are not concerned mating games and caring for offspring, they are quite far away from the coast, sailing into the sea at a distance of up to 1000 km.

On land, if it is necessary to move quickly, the penguin lies on its belly and, pushing off with its limbs, quickly slides over ice or snow.

With this method of movement, penguins develop a speed of 3 to 6 km / h.

The life expectancy of a penguin in nature is 15-25 years or more. In captivity, with ideal bird keeping, this figure sometimes increases to 30 years.

Enemies of penguins in nature

Unfortunately, the penguin has enemies in his natural place a habitat. they peck penguin eggs with pleasure, and helpless chicks are tasty prey for skua. Fur seals, killer whales, sea ​​leopards And sea ​​lions hunting penguins in the sea. They will not refuse to diversify their menu with a well-fed penguin and.

What do penguins eat?

Penguins eat fish, crustaceans, plankton and small cephalopods. The bird gladly eats krill, anchovies, Antarctic silverfish, small octopuses and squids. For one hunt, a penguin can make from 190 to 800-900 dives: it depends on the type of penguin, climatic conditions and feed requirements. oral apparatus the bird works on the principle of a pump: through its beak, it sucks up medium-sized prey along with water. On average, while feeding, birds swim about 27 kilometers and spend about 80 minutes a day at a depth of more than 3 meters.

Geographic distribution these birds are quite extensive, but they prefer coolness. Penguins live in the cold zones of the Southern Hemisphere, mainly their concentrations are observed in the Antarctic and in the Subantarctic region. They also live in southern Australia and South Africa, are found almost along the entire coastline of South America - from the Falkland Islands to the territory of Peru, near the equator they live on the Galapagos Islands.

Classification of the Penguin family (Spheniscidae)

The order Penguin-like (Sphenisciformes) includes the only modern family - Penguins, or Penguins (Spheniscidae), in which 6 genera and 18 species are distinguished (according to the datazone.birdlife.org database dated November 2018).

Genus Aptenodytes J. F. Miller, 1778 - Emperor penguins

  • Aptenodytes forsteri R. Gray, 1844 – Emperor penguin
  • Aptenodytes patagonicus F. Miller, 1778 - King penguin

Genus Eudyptes Vieillot, 1816 - Crested penguins

  • Eudyptes chrysocome(J. R. Forster, 1781) - Crested penguin, rocky golden-haired penguin
  • Eudyptes chrysolophus(J. F. von Brandt, 1837) - Golden-haired penguin
  • Eudyptes moseleyi Mathews & Iredale, 1921 - Northern crested penguin
  • Eudyptes pachyrhynchus R. Gray, 1845 - Thick-billed or Victoria penguin
  • Eudyptes robustus Oliver, 1953 - Snare crested penguin
  • Eudyptes schlegeli Finsch, 1876 – Schlegel's penguin
  • Eudyptes sclateri Buller, 1888 - Great crested penguin

Genus Eudyptula Bonaparte, 1856 - Little penguins

  • Eudyptula minor(J. R. Forster, 1781) - Little penguin

Genus Megadyptes Milne-Edwards, 1880 - Magnificent penguins

  • Megadyptes antipodes(Hombron & Jacquinot, 1841) - Yellow-eyed penguin, or magnificent penguin

Genus Pygoscelis Wagler, 1832 - Antarctic penguins

  • Pygoscelis adeliae(Hombron & Jacquinot, 1841) - Adélie penguin
  • Pygoscelis antarcticus(J. R. Forster, 1781) - Antarctic penguin
  • Pygoscelis papua(J. R. Forster 1781) - gentoo penguin

Genus Spheniscus Brisson, 1760 - Spectacled penguins

  • Spheniscus demersus(Linnaeus, 1758) - Spectacled penguin
  • Spheniscus humboldti Meyen, 1834 - Humboldt penguin
  • Spheniscus magellanicus(J. R. Forster, 1781) - Magellanic penguin
  • spheniscus mendiculus Sundevall, 1871 - Galapagos penguin

Types of penguins, photos and names

The modern classification of penguins includes 6 genera and 19 species. Below are descriptions of several varieties:

  • emperor penguin ( Aptenodytes forsteri)

this is the largest and heaviest penguin: the weight of the male reaches 40 kg with a body length of 117-130 cm, the females are somewhat smaller - with a height of 113-115 cm, they weigh an average of 32 kg. The plumage on the back of the birds is black, the belly is white, in the neck area there are characteristic spots of orange or bright yellow. Emperor penguins live on the coast of Antarctica.

  • king penguin ( Aptenodytes patagonicus)

very similar to the emperor penguin, but differs from it in a more modest size and feather color. The size of the king penguin varies from 90 to 100 cm. The weight of the penguin is 9.3-18 kg. In adults, the back is dark gray, sometimes almost black, the abdomen is white, there are bright orange spots on the sides of the dark head and in the chest area. The habitats of this bird are the South Sandwich Islands, the islands of Tierra del Fuego, Crozet, Kerguelen, South Georgia, Macquarie, Heard, Prince Edward, the coastal waters of the Lusitania Bay.

  • Adelie Penguin ( Pygoscelis adeliae)

medium sized bird. The length of the penguin is 65-75 cm, weight - about 6 kg. The back is black, the belly is white, distinguishing feature- ring white around eyes. Adélie penguins live in Antarctica and on the island territories adjacent to it: the Orkney and South Shetland Islands.

  • Northern crested penguin ( Eudyptes moseleyi)

endangered species. The length of the bird is approximately 55 cm, the average weight is about 3 kg. The eyes are red, the abdomen is white, the wings and back are gray-black. yellow eyebrows smoothly transition into tufts of yellow feathers located on the side of the eyes. Black feathers stick out on the penguin's head. This species differs from the southern crested penguin (lat. Eudyptes chrysocome) in shorter feathers and narrower eyebrows. The main part of the population lives on the islands of Gough, Inaccessible and Tristan da Cunha, located in the southern Atlantic Ocean.

  • Golden-haired penguin (golden-haired penguin) ( Eudyptes chrysolophus)

has a color typical of all penguins, but differs in one feature during appearance: This penguin has a spectacular tuft of golden feathers above the eyes. The body length varies between 64-76 cm, the maximum weight is a little over 5 kg. Golden-haired penguins live along the southern shores of the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic, are slightly less common in the northern part of Antarctica and Tierra del Fuego, and nest on other islands of the Subantarctic.

  • gentoo penguin ( Pygoscelis papua)

the largest penguin in size after the emperor and king. The length of the bird reaches 70-90 cm, the weight of the penguin is from 7.5 to 9 kg. The black back and white belly are a typical color of birds of this species, the beak and paws are painted in an orange-red hue. The habitat of penguins is limited to Antarctica and the islands of the Subantarctic zone (Prince Edward Island, South Sandwich and Falkland Islands, Heard Island, Kerguelen, South Georgia, South Orkney Islands).

  • Magellanic Penguin ( Spheniscus magellanicus)

has a body length of 70-80 cm and a weight of about 5-6 kg. The plumage color is typical for all penguin species, a feature is 1 or 2 black stripes in the neck. Magellanic penguins nest on the Patagonian coast, on the islands of Juan Fernandez and the Falklands, small groups live in southern Peru and in Rio de Janeiro.

  • Pygoscelis antarctica)

reaches a height of 60-70 cm and weighs no more than 4.5 kg. The back and head are painted dark gray, the belly of the penguin is white. A black stripe runs across the head. Antarctic penguins live on the coast of Antarctica and the islands adjacent to the continent. They are also found on icebergs in Antarctica and the Falkland Islands.

  • spectacled penguin, he is donkey penguin, black-footed penguin or African penguin ( Spheniscus demersus)

reaches a length of 65-70 centimeters and weighs from 3 to 5 kg. A distinctive feature of the bird is a narrow strip of black color, curving in the shape of a horseshoe and passing along the belly - from the chest to the paws. Spectacled penguin lives on the coast of Namibia and South Africa, nests along the coastline of islands with a cold Bengal current.

  • little penguin ( Eudyptula minor)

the smallest penguin in the world: the bird has a height of 30-40 cm and a weight of about 1 kg. The back of the little penguin is colored blue-black or dark gray, the chest area and the upper part of the legs are white or light gray. Penguins live on the coast of South Australia, in Tasmania, New Zealand and on the adjacent islands - Stewart and Chatham.

Penguins are unique birds that cannot fly. They are clumsy on land, but they are excellent in the water. On Earth, there are about 16 species, according to other sources - up to 20. Each species lives in different parts of the world. Having adapted to the climate and living conditions on various continents, penguins have mastered the territories of Antarctica, the north of New Zealand, the southern coast of Australia, America (Argentina), Africa, and even settled on the equator (Galapagos Islands).

Locations of different types of penguins

Even before climate change on the planet, penguins lived in an area with temperate climate. With climate change and the shift of Antarctica to the south pole, many animal species have left the ice-covered mainland. Only a small number of adapted animals have mastered life in Antarctica. The penguins were one of them. Some species of penguins have left Antarctica and settled in other parts of the Southern Hemisphere.

Now only 2 species of penguins live in Antarctica: Imperial And Adele. They can also be found in the coastal waters of Antarctica.

Most close relative emperor penguin, king penguin, inhabits islands in the Southern Hemisphere: Kerguelen, South Georgia, South Sandwich Islands, Tierra del Fuego, Macquarie, Hurd, Crozet.

Another member of the penguin family, crested Penguin, lives on the islands of the Subarctic, Tasmania and off the coast of South America.

On the islands of Solander, Stuart and on the South coast of New Zealand lives thick-billed penguin or the so-called Victoria Penguin.

A resident of the small archipelago of the Snar Islands is big penguin.

golden-headed penguin inhabits the southern Atlantic (the islands of Tierra del Fuego, the Falkland Islands), and is also distributed in southern Chile.

little penguin lives on the coast of South Australia and New Zealand.

white-winged penguin lives on the coasts of southern Australia and the western part of the South Island of New Zealand, Canterbury.

The main place of residence for magnificent penguin became the Campbell Archipelago. Some individuals of this species can be found on Bounty Island and in the east of Macquarie Island.

See gentoo penguin available in the Falkland Islands, South Georgia and the Kerguelen Archipelago.

spectacled penguin is an inhabitant of South Africa, Namibia, and is also found along islands with a cold Bengal current.

The habitat of the Galapagos penguin is the Galapagos Islands. About 90% of the entire species of Galapagos penguins inhabit the islands of Fernandina and Isabela.

Humboldt penguins live on the coast of Chile and Peru.

Magellanic penguin inhabits the coasts of the islands of Juan Fernandez and Tierra del Fuego. Apart from southern shores This species is also found in America in the north of Coquimbo (Chile) and Rio de Janeiro.

Everyone knows penguins - these unusual birds. With as if wearing a tailcoat on the body and red paws and beak, these beauties are very popular and loved.

Moreover, the general majority of people think that penguins live exclusively in Antarctica. However, this is not entirely true, the thing is that there are as many as 18 species of penguins and only 3 of them live directly in Antarctica and its coastal waters. But first things first.

Currently living penguins are flightless but good swimmers. In the water, penguins move very quickly - about ten kilometers per hour. But on land they are clumsy, and although the webbed paws help the penguins to stay straight, they move along the ground at a speed of only a few kilometers per hour, but at the same time they are able to cover distances of up to 100 kilometers.

The harsh conditions in which some species of penguins live force them to stray into numerous flocks and even colonies. During a severe cold and blizzard, the birds cling to each other, keeping warm.
These birds feed mainly on fish - sardines, anchovies, silverfish. And some species prefer shrimp and shellfish. Birds drink sea water.

Where do they live?

And so where do they live, these same penguins. Many of us, sometimes even for a minute, but still have a doubt, but where in the Arctic or Antarctic? But there should be no doubt - penguins live in the Southern Hemisphere and only the Southern, and not only in the icy Antarctic and its coastal waters. Their habitat is a very large area - this is South part Australia, and New Zealand, And South Africa, the coast of Peru, and even the Galapagos Islands, where it is more than warm. But to be more precise...

  1. Directly in Antarctica and its coastal waters, only two species of penguins live in our time - these are Adélie, Antarctic and Imperial.
  2. King penguins, as well as Magellans, inhabit the islands - South Georgia, the South Sandwich Islands, Tierra del Fuego, Macquarie, Hurd, Crozet.
  3. Crested penguins live on the islands of Tasmania and off the coast of Peru.
  4. Victoria penguins or thick-billed penguins live on the Stewart Islands and on the South coast of New Zealand.
  5. Golden-domed - inhabits the southern parts of Chile, as well as the islands of Tierra del Fuego and Falkland.
  6. Little penguins live on the coast of South Australia and New Zealand.
  7. The main habitat for the Magnificent Penguins was the Campbell Archipelago, Bounty Island and Macquarie Island.
  8. Schlegel penguins also live there on Macquarie.
  9. Galapagos penguins, as the name implies, live in the Galapagos Islands.
  10. Humboldt penguins live on the coast of Chile and Peru.
  11. Papuans live in the Falkland Islands, South Georgia and the Kerguelen archipelago.
  12. Spectacled penguins - the coast of South Africa and Namibia.

Does the penguin live in captivity?

Penguins are great creatures and breed very well in zoos. Moreover, it has been established that in captivity, these birds live much longer.


Most likely simply because wild nature penguins have a very harsh lifestyle, clearly not conducive to life extension - beyond low temperatures, difficulties with subsistence and simply an incredible number of enemies - predators for which penguins are a means of subsistence.

That is why today special nurseries began to be created, the main purpose of which is to contribute to an increase in penguin populations.