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They use the psychological and cooperation adaptations Penguin to live in a harsh environment, where winds can reach up to -60 ° C. They are grouped with each other to avoid the wind and maintain a comfortable temperature.

Individuals are taking turns, where once already warmed inside the group, they move to the outside area in order to protect the group, and let other members who were abroad before, are now benefiting from heat the group.

Emperor penguins spend most of their time in the long winter in open ice. Females lay an egg, and soon left to start hunting. Depending on the extent of ice in which they are, the females have to travel about 80 miles to find the open ocean, where they can feed on fish, shrimp and squid. In water, the penguins are able to get under the water more than 500 meters and go more than 20 min. submerged.

Penguin males guard the newly laid eggs, but no and sit on them, but the balance and wrapped like a bag of feathers in question. For two months the male penguins do not eat anything and are at the mercy of time.

Once the females arrive, they regurgitate the food they give to their offspring, while the male goes to sea to get food for him. Females protect their young with their bodies as if they did not, would die a few minutes. In December, the Antarctic summer starts to break the ice, water appears, and the young penguins are ready to swim and hunt on their own.