As promised, today I will answer some more of the commonly asked questions I hear on Penguin Beach. (Click the title to read more)

Question 1: Are the Penguins birds or fish?
Fish? Fish? Do I have scales? No. I know we swim very well but we are most definitely not fish. We are birds because we have feathers and the female penguins lay eggs, and we have wings! The only thing we can’t do that most other birds can is fly, as we use our wings as flippers to swim.

Question 2: Why are the penguins living on a sandy beach? Don’t they come from the North Pole?
There are no penguins in the wild in the Northern hemisphere, that’s the whole of the world above the equator – so definitely no penguins in the North Pole. The 17 different species of penguin all live in the Southern hemisphere, in many different places, and African penguins come from the sandy beaches of South Africa.
The Macaroni penguins live in rocky places like the Falklands Islands, and the biggest of all penguins, the Emperor, live in Antarctica on the snow and ice. I am so happy to be an African penguin though, we don’t get much snow here in Devon and as much as I enjoy chasing the snow flakes it does get quite cold and I wouldn’t want it all the time.

If you have any more penguin questions just ask!
I’ll write soon,

Love Ping xx