Why are penguins not cold?🐧| Curious Questions
Penguins🐧 are birds. Like all birds, penguins🐧 have feathers. But they can't fly. Penguins rarely go ashore. Because there, with their short legs, they can only move forward with difficulty. Only in a slow, funny waddle.
Most of the time, penguins🐧are in the water. And there they are quite nimble. Their wings are like the fins of fish. The fins help them swim, as do the webbed feet. Some penguins🐧are as big as a child. Most penguins🐧live by the sea on the lower half of the earth, in Antarctica. There is only ice, snow and water. Nowhere on earth is it colder. Nevertheless, the penguins🐧waddle across the ice and swim in the cold water without shivering. The adult penguins🐧never freeze because they have a layer of fat under their skin. It's as wide as three of your fingers. It protects their bodies from the cold. Above the skin, they also have three layers of feathers. And they are all waterproof. Baby penguins🐧don't have a layer of fat yet. When they feel uncomfortable, they hide in the warm folds of their daddies' bellies.
In a nutshell: penguins🐧 don't get cold because of their waterproof feathers and the thick layer of fat under their skin.