AfricanPenguins

=THE WORLD OF THE AFRICAN PEGUIN = by Michael, Anisha, and Anna  toc

=Habitat= The African Penguin lives on the south coast of Africa. They live on the off shore islands too.

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Food
Their diet includes small fish such as pilchards,sardines,anchovies small curstanceans and squid.The penguins obtain water from the fish they eat.

Babies
They build their nests under bushes or on sandy beaches. The eggs hach after 40 days. The babys have pink around the eyes when they are first born.



Predators
These penguins predators are humans, lepords , sharks , cape fur seals , monguse , and gents. Kelpgulls are really bad because they steal their eggs and eat them for diner OUCH !!!

Other intresting facts
The population of breeding is 70,000. Did you know that these penguins can dive 30 dephs !!! They can swim up to 7 km deep.

Future Of These Penguins
These penguins could be extinked if we do not help them because the population went down.

Characteristics Of The Penguins
They are ajusted to people. They are funny and smart.