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Show I MR. PENGUIN "He's the Little Man With a White Vest" i You might say about Mr. Fonguin that he's the little man with a white vest. Thies bird is one of the most curious and interesting of the feathered feather-ed tribe. He stands erect like a man, with his coat talis touching the ground behind his round, aldernianic white vest in view in front, and with the wisest, most, cocksure look imaginable imag-inable on his face. Lilke the American pelican, penguins pen-guins live in colonics. In the Pacific is an Island called Macquarrio. That is one-third of the area of Chicago, but with double the population, In penguins, that Chicago has. It Is estimated es-timated that at lea3t 5,000,000 of these birds inhabit the island. There arc whole acres where the ground is completely com-pletely hidden by nesting penguins. As many as 150,000 a year are killed for their feathers, and to boll down for the oil in them. Only one egg in laid, but there is no sign of the colony diminishing. Penguin has very short logs and Inasmuch as ho Is thre feet high and pretty robustly built, he Is very awkward awk-ward on them. His wlnga are more like flippers and they enable him to " swim easily under water, where he gets his food. He often divea.to great depths. He doesn't fly much. Hi3 homo is in the cold seas, close to eternal eter-nal Ice and so as to keep him warm nature has provided his body with a layer of blubber like fat. When you see a penguin at sea you usually sec an army of them because they go afloat in great "swimming schools." Some penguins build nests; others lay their eggs on the bare- ground. But they arc most devoted. Both Penguin and Mrs. Penguin sit on their single egg and the mother takes care of the baby penguin for a whole year until another egg arrives, needing un-devlded un-devlded attention. Fossils have been found showing that this bird used to be six to seven feet tall. oo |