Penguin Diet

What Penguins Eat
 

Penguins eat sea animals.  Their main diet is fish, squid, and octopus.  They also eat krill, which is like a shrimp.  Krill are plentiful in Antarctic waters.
Penguins do all of their feeding in the water.  They store the food in a special place and regurgitate (that means spit up) the food later to feed their babies.
Go to this site to see a diagram of a krill:
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/invertebrates/crustacean/Krillprintout.shtml

 

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