Penguin Fun

Today, January 19, is National Penguin Awareness day! So today you will proceed to be peppered with weird penguin facts that you may not have known.

• Penguins eat snow to get a source of fresh water.
• The name comes from two Welsh terms: the first is "pen", which means head; and the second is "gwyn", which means white. So basically its name means "white head".
• The United States Libertarian Party's unofficial mascot is a penguin.
• The first thing a penguin does when it's born is call out loudly so that its parents learn to associate the voice with their chick.
• A group of penguins is called a colony or a rookery.
• Penguins can jump up to six feet out of the water.
• Penguins first appeared about forty million years ago.
• A prehistoric penguin is believed to have been up to five feet tall.
• Penguin hunt in water, which is where they end up spending about three quarters of their lives.
• The little blue penguin will, oft-times, make its home in someone's garage. While they are a very loud species, New Zealanders are so happy just to have a penguin living in their home that they'll put up with it.
• Penguins get deeper sleep in the afternoon than they do in mornings.