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= Adelie Penguins =

By Kiran and Colton
== Characteristics ﻿ Adelie penguins weigh up to 5.8 kg and they are 46 to 75 centimeters long. Adelie pengiuns can swim up to 45 mph. One way you can tell Adelie penguins apart from other types of penguins is by the white ring around their eye. The Adelie penguin has a reddish mark on its beak with black on the tip. ==

Habitat
== Adelie live in Antarctica, it is also really rocky were they live. There are about 2.5 million penguins in the Antartic region. Food ==

== The Adelie penguin eats ice krill, Antartic krill, Antartic silverfish, and Glacial squid. Adelie penguins don't drink water they eat snow. They used to eat all fish but they started to eat krill because of the decline of Antartic fur seal in the 1800's. ==

|| and Baleen whales in the year 2000.
 * [[image:http://www.gerrylemmo.com/resize.asp?ID=424&width=500 width="203" height="197" caption="Adelie penguin eating ice" link="javascript:history.back;"]]

Leopard seals, skua (a clever bird), killer whales, and skarks.
== Babies == == Babie Adelie penguins weigh 5.5 lb. When the parents come back they run away so the children can chase them and get to be very fast waddlers. Usually only one of the two eggs layed by the mother survive and the other one dies of hunger because it can't catch its parents. Baby Adelie penguins are the fastest growing type of penguins, they are also the fastest waddlers. One Adelie penguin laid two greenish white eggs in November these eggs hatched in 35 days. ==

Other interesting facts[[image:Adelie_egg.jpg]]
== Adelie penguins migrate 13,000 km, the longest migration made by these penguins is 17,600 km. The Adelie penguin was named after a French explorer's wife. Its black tail gives it a tuxedo like apearence. ==

Future
== Lots of moisture in the air, the snowfall on Peninsula becomes heavier. Break down food chains. Lots of Adelie are dead because the habitat is breaking. I think these animals have a bright future because they`re least concerned on the extinction chart. But hunters and global warming might lead to the decline of these penguins. ==

Adelie Penguins
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