Penguins

• Can you name a place on Earth that has both orange groves and penguins? The Galapagos Islands!
• Like homing pigeons, transplanted penguins will find their way back to their bases, if possible. By swimming. And waddling.
• Chickens recognize chickens by their looks. Penguins recognize penguins by their squawks.
• When penguins could fly—that was way back—they were as big as grown people.
• What makes a penguin clumsy is that so much of its legs are inside its body.
• Not only can a mother penguin identify her own chick by its call, but similarly she can recognize the egg it's in before it's hatched by its call therein.
• You want to keep a pet penguin? All right, but you'll have to refrigerate it.
• A penguin can swim a lot faster than a salmon.
• A penguin takes a six-inch stride. But it can run as fast as a man.
• A drink of fresh water makes a penguin shudder. Several drinks of it makes that penguin sick.
• Penguins dive as far as 800 feet down into the sea.
• Penguins will walk right up to anything. They look fearless. They're not. They're near-sighted.