Some Cool Facts about Penguins
- Penguins like to travel over ice and snow by sliding on their bellies. This is known as "tobogganing" .
- Penguins spend as much as 75% of their time underwater, searching for food in the ocean.
- Penguins are shaped like a torpedo. Their body is built for the most efficient swimming with their average speed in the water being about 15 miles per hour.
- These birds can bounce not jump but bounce up to 5 feet!
- Penguins are often seen surfing through the waves onto land.
- Their white bellies blend with the snow and sunlight making it difficult for an underwater predator to see them.
