Penguin meat tastes somewhat like fish and has a fishy taste and also is fatty and tough.
Some people that have eaten penguin meat have described the taste of penguin meat as being similar to the taste of a mix of beef, cod and duck meat.
Polar explorers in the past have also suggested that penguin meat is not a particularly palatable food, although penguin meat was sometimes historically eaten out of necessity for survival.
The taste of penguin meat also can vary depending the diet of the penguin as well as the penguins location and age.
Penguin meat is not eaten by people although penguin meat is edible.
People do not eat penguins although penguin meat is edible to humans and not toxic.
Legally you cannot eat penguins in most countries because of the Antarctic Treaty of 1959.
The main reason for people not eating penguins is that it is illegal to hunt penguins in places where they are abundant and generally perceived as immoral due to the endangered status of some species.
Penguins are a group of aquatic flightless birds.
They live almost exclusively in the Southern Hemisphere: only one species, the Galápagos penguin, is found north of the Equator.
Highly adapted for life in the water, penguins have countershaded dark and white plumage and flippers for swimming.
Some facts about penguins are.
Gentoo Penguins are the fastest of all penguin species! These penguins can swim at speeds of up to 36km/h!
The oldest penguin fossils are 62 million years old.
Penguins poop every 20 minutes.
A penguins black and white coloring is called counter-shading.
Penguins are expert divers!
Penguins are birds, although they are flightless birds.
Lots of people think penguins are mammals rather than birds because they can't fly, and we see them swimming underwater or waddling on land instead.
Penguins' main predators (seals, sea lions, whales, and sharks) all reside in the water, so these birds feel much safer on land around researchers and tourists for better or for worse.
Some penguins build pebble nests.
According to some animal experts, the penguin is one of the most streamlined animals in the world.
A penguin's body is tapered at both ends and it has a large head, short neck and elongated body.
This streamlined design helps penguins swim fast.
Penguins eat krill (a shrimp-like crustacean in the family Euphausiidae), squids, and fishes.
Various species of penguins have slightly different food preferences, which reduce competition among species.