Moving North T ings warm up a little north of Antarctica. It’s still a hard place to live, though. Icy water rushes past rocky islands. Winds blast. One kind of penguin that lives
here is the southern rockhopper. So do birds of prey called skuas. T ey steal penguin eggs. T ey grab chicks. To survive, rockhoppers team up.
T ey peck at the skuas. T ey work together to chase the skuas away. Rockhoppers also have an odd way
of moving. T ey don’t just waddle. T ey hop. T ey have to. T eir environment is full of big rocks.
A rockhopper penguin leaps from rock to rock.
Getting Warmer Move farther north and penguins face a new challenge. It’s heat. T e yellow-eyed penguin lives along the coast of New Zealand. It’s pretty warm here. When this penguin gets out of the
water, it doesn’t stay on the shore. T is place is full of plants. So the penguin waddles to a shady spot. It settles in between a tree’s roots. T is penguin has other ways to
keep cool, too. It pants. It also spreads its feathers to let a cool breeze reach its skin.
Some Like It Hot A surprising place to find a penguin is a sunbaked beach. Yet one species of penguin lives in Africa. Summers are hot here. Winters are mild. It doesn’t rain oſt en. T e African penguin has adapted
to this climate. Part of its face has no feathers. It has bright pink patches of skin, instead. Bare skin lets body heat escape and cools the bird down. T is penguin, like the others, lives
in an extreme environment. All penguins have feathers and all can swim. Yet each species of penguin is diff erent and built to survive.
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