Word Finder - penguins

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Any of several flightless sea birds, of order Sphenisciformes, found in the Southern Hemisphere, marked by their usual upright stance, walking on short legs, and (generally) their stark black and white plumage.

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An auk (sometimes especially a great auk), a bird of the Northern Hemisphere.

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A nun (association through appearance, because of the black and white habit).

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A type of catch where the palm of the hand is facing towards the leg with the arm stretched downward, resembling the flipper of a penguin.

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A spiny bromeliad with egg-shaped fleshy fruit, Bromelia pinguin.

The short feet of the penguins are an adaptation.

The food of penguins consists of crustaceans, cephalopods and other molluscs, varied by fish and vegetable matter.

You can also view the penguins from home via the PenguinCam!

It shelters vast numbers of penguins (Eudyptes chrysocoma), which there form their rookeries.

African penguins have suffered a 90% drop in their populations during the last 100 years.

The island is visited by vast numbers of penguins and contains valuable guano deposits.

Then there are some rocky outcrops where the Gentoo penguins seem to stay.

Popular sets include penguins and tigers.

We saw elephant seals and chinstrap penguins that were totally unfazed by our presence.

They also prey heavily on the eggs and chicks of penguins and small petrels.

We'll attempt a landing at Coronation Island, known for its extensive moss beds, nesting penguins and beautiful snow petrels.

Finally divers, auks and penguins, according to him, form the last term in the series, and it seems fit to him that they should be regarded as forming a separate order.

This was quite a large rookery of penguins which allowed very close approach.

Here there are Weddell and elephant seals, skuas, giant petrels, Antarctic terns and rookeries of chinstrap, gentoo and macaroni penguins.

Visitors are led along a small brook and stroll through the dunes to discover sea birds, squawking gulls, a seal and penguins.

For penguins, tack an image of icecaps to the back of a shadowbox and add some faux snow to the bottom before placing the penguins inside.

These include a Jungle Design Studio, which has monkeys, hippos, butterflies, lions and explorers; and an Ocean Design Studio, with penguins, dolphins, fish, seals, turtles and seahorses.

The end result, the baby penguins taking the plunge into the water for the first time, is also moving.

Graptolite Island now has a giant rookery - mainly Adelie Penguins.

Gentoo Penguins have established a rookery and a busy penguin highway here.

Here also, at Salisbury Plain, is a huge rookery of magnificent king penguins.

In season you can spot various species of penguins, occasionally fur seals, sea lions and elephant seals.

The short feet of the penguins are quite plantigrade, in adaptation to which habit the metatarsals lie in one plane and are incompletely co-ossified, thus presenting a pseudo-primitive condition.

First he failed to see the great structural difference between the penguins (which Illiger had placed as a group, Impennes, of equal rank to his other families) and the auks, divers and grebes, Pygopodes - combining all of them to form a "Typus " (to use his term) Urinatores; and secondly he admitted among the Natatores, though as a distinct " Typus " Podoidae, the genera Podoa and Fulica, which are now known to belong to the Rallidae - the latter indeed (see Cool') being but very slightly removed from the moorhen (q.v.).

For example, the Polar Bear and Emperor Penguins depend on sheets of ice for a place to give birth to their young and rest during their travels.

Presto Chango Decor features farm animals, firetrucks, stars, cars, penguins and undersea creatures.

Unusual animal options include penguins, bats and a llama, among many others.

Fontasy Penguin has adorable penguins dangling from the letters.

WinPenguins has penguins who run, jump, and fly over your screen.

Try your hand at dog sledding in Alaska, or set foot on the Antarctic continent itself, view spectacular ice burgs, and visit with the Penguins.

You can find towels with snowflakes, snowmen, pine cones, poinsettias, penguins, wreaths, and others.

She also provided her voice talents for the film Farce of the Penguins and is a public speaker, discussing her meth addiction and recovery.

You may see skis, snowy mountaintops, boughs of holly, candy canes, candles, penguins, wreaths and other images that relate to the season, but don't necessarily have anything to do with Christmas itself.

Stunning displays of marine life, including dolphins, manatees, sharks, stingrays, Beluga whales, orcas, penguins and more bring visitors face to face with these exotic and intelligent creatures.

Visitors can spend an entire day getting up close and personal with marine life, from dolphins and sea otters to penguins and rays.

Included in this menagerie are fish, penguins, mollusks, sharks, and many others.

Whether you carry a theme like penguins into the room, but switch the main colors, or continue a color into the room but switch the focus, you can coordinate the whole house.

Pfaltzgraff Holiday and Christmas Dinnerware-From penguins to candy and snowmen to garlands, Pfaltzgraff offers a variety of place settings to accent your dining room décor.

For more dimensional decorations, choose lighted holiday lawn features such as angels, tin soldiers, snowmen, wildlife, elves, penguins, and Christmas presents.

Characters such as Sponge Bob or the Penguins of Madagascar are on the site, as well as versions of games like "Bloons Super Monkey" (one of the games also featured on CoolMath websites).

For under thirty dollars, a family of four can spend their day viewing endangered birds, watching penguins eat, attending a shark feeding, and much more.

Animal lovers -- The g-strings with musical storks, penguins and elephants, among other animals, are good for a chuckle.

You can get pajamas printed with robots, animals, flowers, insects or penguins, as well as a number of other styles.

This designer is known for fun and outrageous prints, including sock monkeys, VW buses and playing penguins.

High Heels and Bloodsuckers is the brainchild of Casey Pendleton, a Midwest author with an obsession for gargoyles, penguins, and creatures of the night.

Sphenisci, penguins.

Covered with snow for the greater part of the year, and growing nothing but lichens, mosses and some scanty grass, the South Shetlands are of interest almost solely as a haunt of seals, albatrosses, penguins and other sea-fowl.

The most northerly limit of the penguins' range in the Atlantic is Tristan d'Acunha, and in the Indian Ocean Amsterdam Island, but they also occur off the Cape of Good Hope and along the coast of Australia, as well as on the south and east of New Zealand, while in the Pacific one species at least extends along the west coast of South America and to the Galapagos; but north of the equator none are found.

Humboldt's penguins excavate burrows to nest in, usually about 3 meters in length.

Emperor penguins breed in the Antarctic, under the harshest conditions for any species of bird Infant Capuchin monkeys Issue 10.