What bird lives in Antarctica and can't fly?

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asked Jul 2 in Birds by Sussyboyss (860 points)
What bird lives in Antarctica and can't fly?

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answered Jul 9 by 12iroanges (37,800 points)
The bird that lives in Antarctica and can't fly is the Penguin.

Penguins are a group of flightless and aquatic birds which live almost exclusively in the Southern Hemisphere.

And most of the penguins feed on fish, krill, squid and other forms of sea life that is caught swimming while underwater.

Penguins are birds, so they do have wings.

However, the wing structures of penguins are evolved for swimming, rather than flying in the traditional sense.

Penguins swim underwater at speeds of up to 15 to 25 miles per hour.

Around 50 million years ago, Antarctica was breaking away from the massive supercontinent of Gondwana and penguins were forming their own species.

Penguins were originally native to warmer climates, but they began adapting to the cooling temperatures of Antarctica as they made their way farther south.

The total number of breeding pairs of penguins in the Antarctic region is estimated to be about 20 million.

Although this covers a huge geographical area, the penguins are concentrated in coastal regions.

Huddled up in the cold of winter, emperor penguins can reach a density of 19 birds per square meter.

Besides a lone species unique to the Galápagos Islands on the equator, penguins live only in the Southern Hemisphere – everywhere from Antarctica to various remote islands and the southern coasts of Africa, Australia, New Zealand and South America.

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