ChinstrapPenguins

= Chinstrap Penguins  = =  =  by Drew, Cole, and Lindsey   toc

Characteristics
The chinstrap penguins are the most numerous penguins in the world. They got their name from the thin curved line of black feathers under their chin. They stand 28 inches tall and weigh about 9 to 14 lbs. They are medium sized.They have a white face with a thin black line under their chin.

Habitat
They live on islands around antartica. There are about 12 to 13 milion. They live and breed in large colonies. They live on icebergs in the ocean around anartica. They make nests of peoles and stones.

Food
 Their diet consists of krill,shrimp,and fish. They love this kind of food.

Predators
 There are mainly eaten by the leopord seals. The predators of the chinstrap penguins eggs and chicks are the sheathbill and the brown skua (birds). The predators of the chinstrap penguin is a lepord seal. The chinstrap penguin other predators are the sharks,seal lions,and other types of stuff.

Babies
 The female lays two eggs and the eggs are kept warm by both male and female. The chicks hatch after 35 days and they can stay in the nest to 20 to 30 days before they join a creche. At 50 to 60 days old,the gane there adult hood and go to sea. The female lays two eggs. The eggs hatch around 15 days.

Other Interesting facts (2-3)
 They often live on large icebergs on the open ocean. They are the boldest penguin and will fight other penguin. The chinstraps are the most comnon penguins with a populration lost there ability to fly thousands of years ago.

Future of the animals
<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> The globle warming is threating the survlval of our penguins in the Antartica's today this means less and preshis nesting grounds were destroyed to raise their young. They are pretected by the Anartic treaky of 1959. They are an endangerd speces.