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The African Penguin - Online Term Paper

The African Penguin

The small African Penguin lives in south and southwest Africa. It
only stands about twenty-seven and a half inches off the ground and weighs
about six and four tenths pounds. is black and white.
It has a broad black band that curves around their front and looks like an
inverted horseshoe, and their chest is dotted with a few black spots in
random patterns. When they are young, African Penguins are very dependent
on their mother for food in which they eat fish and crustaceans and
protection. It does not even learn how to swim until it is about nine
weeks old. In it's youth the penguin is guarded for about forty days and
they go out on their own when they are about seventy to one ...

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reduced their species. A long
time ago the early European settlers at the Cape of Good Hope realized that
penguin eggs were good for eating and over the years millions of penguin
eggs have been collected greatly reducing the population of the African
penguin species, and even to make things worse they started the practice of
destroying any incubated eggs so that there would be fresh ones when these
collectors paid their next visit. Another reason the African Penguin
population was decreasing is Guano on the islands on which the penguins
breed. It became the basis for a new industry and workers removed
thousands of pounds. This disturbed the birds and because the islands were
scraped down to their bare rock the penguins could not dig their burrows
into the Guano for their nests and so the penguins and their chicks be came
more vulnerable to the Kelp Gull. They became more vulnerable bec ause
they were more easily seen. One of the big reasons why the African
Penguin's ...

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Added: 1/27/2006 02:36:07 PM
Category: Science & Nature
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