Antarctic birds and mammals - penguins, whales and seals - are warm blooded animals and they maintain similar internal body temperatures to warm blooded animals in any other climate zone - that is about 35-42°C (95-107°F). They have to keep high body temperatures to remain active. Tropical animals with more variable body temperatures such as reptiles and amphibians can warm up by basking in the sun if they cool down - and they never cool down that much. A large (bigger than a small insect) Antarctic animal will never get enough energy from the surroundings to become active if it allows itself to cool (there are exceptions at the other end of the size scale amongst very small insects and mites and in the fish) so they have to stay warm to be active.
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We know that male emperor penguins huddle through the harshest conditions to help keep themselves warm. This remarkable bird incubates an egg through the middle of the Antarctic winter. They can only do so if the colony huddles against the extreme cold. The birds move around a bit so that no bird is always on the outside, and in this way they loose less energy keeping themselves and their egg warm. It's an adaptation that improves their chances of making it through 'til spring when the females rejoin the colony.
They huddle to keep warm. They normally do this during snowstorms. They take turns on the outside.
so they can keep there egg warm because without the huddle the solitary penguin alone will die.
Penguins have adapted to polar regions in many ways. They have a special circulatory system that lets them be able to conserve or release heat depending on their situation. Penguins will huddle together in order to keep warm as well. They have webbed feet to make them swim more efficient and faster. Penguins can't fly, they have solid bones but those bones help them to hunt and swim better underwater.
I know typical penguins have a stained yellowish-brownish color due to urine and feces. In the winter months while the mother is away getting food, the males will huddle together to stay warm; therefore, when they urinate or have a bowel movement, they stay in one place. Only to humans is that "gross".
Huddling together so the heat gets passed round through conduction of their bodies.
I have no idea, but other penguins do not migrate.
There are no penguins at the north pole. Penguins are only found in the southern hemisphere.
They can and will if they're weathering out a storm out in the open. But they huddle together like horses will, not like penguins do.
To protct themselves.
They huddle!
For warmth and protection.
Yes, yes it is.
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to keep warm
Penguins huddle together to keep warm.Somewhere in the group huddle, Tiny Tim yelled "I can't breathe!"
Basically they huddle together so they stay warm
David Tennant
you huddle up
They Huddle Together