Galapagos Penguin By: Lauren

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Galapagos PenguinBy Lauren 11

• Will this endangered species survive?

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Animal Description

• Penguins are flightless sea birds. They can be
  many different colors from the chest up. Most
  species have black backs and white fronts.
  Penguins are able to control their body heat by
  facing their black backs or white fronts to the
  sun.

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Location

• Galapagos penguins breed on the Galapagos Islands
  on the equator (and the north coast of Isabelle
  Island just north of the equator!)

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More Info

• The Galapagos Penguin is the third smallest
  species of penguins in the world. The female lays
  a clutch of two eggs of which usually one
  survives. These are the northern most penguins
  in the world.

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Habitat

• Their habitat is in marshy areas, they

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Why Endangered

• The Galapagos Penguin is endangered because it is
  mostly dying of starvation. The other problem for
  this penguin is keeping it cool. If its body is
  not the correct temperature then it could die.

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What's on the menu

• Mullet
• Schooling fish (fish that swim together)
• Sardines that are 1-15 cm. in length
• crustaceans

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Interesting Info

• The Galapagos Penguin (Speniscus mendiculus) The
  Galapagos Penguin lives on the Galapagos Islands.
  It is the only penguin to live on the equator.

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Bibliography
Galapagos Penguin Conservation project,14
February 2007 www.arkive.org/species/GES/birds/sph
eniscus_ mendiculus Wildscreen2003-2007 Bingham,
Mark http//www.penguins.cl/galapagos-penguins
htm. Field, Wieden http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ga
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