Penguin World Club (PWC) is the newest, the best and, well, the only club for penguin lovers on PETZ4FUN.COM.

Please join Penguin World Club if you love penguins or want to know stuff about them.
Also please join Penguin Roleplay, the first roleplaying club for penguin lovers!

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Our Club Goals:
-Get a member (YES!)
-Get 5+ Members (YES!)
Get 10+ Members (YES!)
Get 20+ Members (NO)
Get 50+ Members (NO)
Have Info on ALL species of Penguin (including extinct) (NO)

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Contact Us by email:
bluepenguin999@gmail.com

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All PWC Members!!
Send your drawings in to: bluepenguin999@gmail.com!
They will be put on the website.

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Please Visit Our Site!
Our site is: http://penguin-world.yolasite.com
On it we have:
-A Forum
-Fun Stuff (Coming Soon)
-And lots more.
Please visit it!!

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Club Admin:
-Penguin (Owner)
-Flowergirl (Co-Owner)
-Flicka222 (Badge Designer)
-Animal_lvr123 (Manager of Information-MOI)

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Prizes won:
11-12-2009 - 1ST PLACE: Hazel, owned by Penguin, won in Member Club Rabbit! Thanks!
18-12-2009 - 3RD PLACE: Kiwifruit, owned by Penguin, got 3rd in Member Club Hamster!
1-01-2010 - 7TH PLACE: Ricky-Barbu, owned by Penguin, received 7th in Member Club Dog.

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PWC News (PWCN):
CLUB IN TROUBLE, Read the Article:
Today Club Owner 'Penguin', has arrived back at the club after months. The club has been inactive, and Penguin is thinking about closing it down.
"Well, no members has been visiting for ages. It was a very promising club, but then everything went down the sink" said Penguin. "Unless I can get the members back to chatting and stuff, this club is failed". The club will shut down unless it becomes active soon. 2 June 2010

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Penguin breeds to add:
Macaroni penguin
Royal penguin
Erect-crested penguin
Snares Island penguin
Magellanic penguin
Humbolot penguin
Joshua penguin

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Penguin s:
Emperor penguin facts:

Population:200,000 pairs
Location:Weddell and Ross Sea regions
Size:Up to 40 inches tall
Weight:88 pounds
Diet:Fish, squid, & crustaceans
Nests:None
- The Emperor penguin is the world's largest penguin.
- The Emperor penguin lays its single egg during the coldest time of the year, when temperatures drop to as low as -80° F and winds reach velocities of up to 112 miles per hour.
- Emperors have by far the deepest and longest dives for any bird. They often reach depths of 700 feet, and can stay submerged for up to 18minutes.
- Emperors are insulated in part by a dense network of feathers - about 70 feathers per square inch.
-Some famous Emperor penguins are Mumble from Happy Feet and the penguins from March of the Penguins.

Fairy (Little blue) Penguin facts:

Population:500,000 pairs
Location:Sub-Antarctic regions south of New Zealand
Size:16 to 17 inches tall
Weight:2 pounds
Diet:Small fish, squid, and crustaceans
Nests:Burrows or rock crevices lined with plant material
- Fairy penguins are the smallest species of penguin.
- The scientific name 'Eudyptula' is Greek for 'good little diver'.
- Each year Fairy penguins will return to the same burrow and 'renovate' it, if it is not too badly damaged.
- Introduced species such as foxes dogs, feral cats and nest predators like rats, snakes and lizards have reduced Fairy penguin populations dramatically
- The average life-span of a Fairy penguin is about 20 years.

Yellow-eyed Penguin facts:"

Population:2000 pairs
Location:Coasts of New Zealand and southern islands
Size:24 inches tall
Weight:13 pounds
Diet:Fish and squid
Nests:Shallow bowls on the forest floor, lined with grasses & twigs
- Yellow-eyed penguins are considered to be the world's rarest penguin.
- They get their name from the adult's yellow eye and the yellow stripe of feathers around their head.
- Yellow-eyed penguins are also called 'Hoiho', their Maori name meaning 'noise shouter.'
- It is the only member of the genus Megadyptes which has the longest ancestry of all living penguins.
- Yellow-eyed penguins are the least social of all penguins, being solitary breeders.
- Yellow-eyeds maintain the largest territory size of any penguin, sometimes up to 1 nest per hectare in forested areas.
- Yellow-eyed penguins can live for up to 20 years.
- Yellow-eyed penguins (YEPS) are the most endangered breed of penguin

Gentoo Penguins

Population:300,000 pairs
Location:Antarctic Peninsula & sub antarctic islands
Size:30 inches tall
Weight:12 pounds
Diet:Crustaceans, fish and squid
Nests:Circles of piled stones, pebbles, grass, or sticks
- Gentoo penguins are the least abundant species of penguin found on the subantarctic islands.
- No other penguin has such a prominent tail.
- Unlike most penguins in which the sexes are similarly sized, female Gentoos are smaller than the males.
- Unlike other penguin species, Gentoo penguins may breed as early as two years of age.
- Gentoo penguins rear two chicks each year more often than other penguin species.

Chinstrap penguins:

Population:7 million pairs
Location:Antarctic peninsula and southern islands
Size:27 inches tall
Weight:9 pounds
Diet:Krill & fish
Nests:High, snow-free ground
- For nesting, Chinstrap penguins often select lofty sites that are the first to become snow-free, to ensure the maximum amount of time to raise their chicks.
- Chinstraps are regarded as one of the bolder and more pugnacious of the17 penguin species.
- They can dive to a maximum of 230 feet; with most dives lasting for just half a minute.

Fiordland Penguin:

Population: 5,000 to 6,000 penguins
Location: Fiordland Coast (New Zealand), Stewart Is. (New Zealand)
Size: 60 cm (24 in)
Weight: 3.7 kg
Diet: Arrow Squid, Krill, Red Cod, Hoki.
Nests: Dense Temperate Forest
- The population of this penguin has thought to have dropped by around 33% since the 1980's.
- Predators include cats, dogs, stoats and rats.
- In Maori (One of the languages in New Zealand) its name is Tawaki.
- The Fiordland Penguin has a broad, yellow eyebrow-stripe which extends over the eye and drops down the neck.

Galapagos Penguin:

Population: 1,500 Penguins (2004)
Location: Galápagos Islands (Galápagos archipelago), Ecuador.
Size: 48-50 cm (19-20 in)
Weight: 2.5 kg (5.5 lbs)
Diet: Small fish
Nests: Roughly 50m from the shore.
- It is the only penguin to cross the Northern Hemisphere which means they live farther north than any other warm weather penguin.
- The Galapagos Penguins breed as many as three times a year, since they don’t have a specified breeding season. Because of this, they are able to choose when to breed, and they ultimately decide this depending on food supplies.

King Penguin:

Population: 2.23 Million Pairs
Location: Falkland Is., Sub-antarctic Islands, Tierra del Fuego.
Size: 90 cm (3 ft)
Weight: 11 to 16 kg (24 to 35 lbs)
Diet: Small Fish, squid
Nests: None
- They are the second largest penguin in the wold.
- The Nature Protection Society released King Penguins in Gjesvær in Finnmark, and Røst in Lofoten in northern Norway in August 1936. Birds were reported in the area several times in the 1940s though none have been seen since 1949.

Adélie Penguin:

Population: 38 colonies
Location: Ross Sea, Ross Is.
Size: 46-75 cm (18-30 in)
Weight: 3.9 to 5.8 kg (8.6 to 12.8 lbs)
Diet: Antarctic & Ice Krill, Antarctic Silverfish, Glacial Squid
Nests: Made of stones
- In 1830, French explorer Jules Dumont d'Urville named them for his wife, Adélie.
- The Adélie Penguin's tail is a little longer than other penguins' tails.
- With a reduction in sea ice and a scarcity of food, populations of the Adélie penguin have dropped by 65% over the past 25 years.
- The CBBC children's show Pingu revolves around a family of penguins who are presumed to be adelie penguins.
- The 1995 film The Pebble and the Penguin was based on Adélie courtship behavior where the birds build nests of pebbles to attract mates.

Rockhopper penguin:

Quick Facts:
Population:4 million pairs
Location:Sub-Antarctic Island coasts
Size:21 inches tall
Weight:6 pounds
Diet:Krill, fish, & squid
Nests:Burrows in rock crevices

# Rockhopper penguins are the most widespread of the crested penguins and also the smallest.
# In some localities Rockhopper numbers have decreased alarmingly due in part to disease, introduced species and possibly warming seas.
# 'Rockies' have a very loud cry called 'ecstatic vocalization', which is used to announce their presence, to attract a mate or to state their territory. Also, by shaking their heads they cause their yellow eyebrows to fly into a 'halo' in order to attract a mate.
# As in many penguin species, male Rockhoppers are capable of producing 'milk' from their digestive systems which they then regurgitate for their chicks when the female is away hunting for food.

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Extinct Species & Genus/Fossils:

Icadyptes salasi

Icadyptes salasi was a giant penguin species from the late Eocene period, in the tropics of South America. Standing 1.5 metres (5 ft) tall, the penguin was much larger than any of its modern-day cousins. It had an exceptionally long spear-like beak resembling that of a heron.

Genus - Waimanu(Known Species: W. manneringi, W. tuatahi)

Waimanu is a genus of early Penguin which lived soon after the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event. Discovered in Canterbury, New Zealand riverbed sediments (near the Waipara River) of the greensand of the Waipara Formation in 1980, the name Waimanu comes from Māori for "waterbird". Two species are known, Waimanu manneringi from the Middle Paleocene about 60 million years ago (mya) and Waimanu tuatahi from the Late Paleocene, perhaps 58 mya.

Genus - Archaeospheniscus (Known Species: A. lowei, A. lopdelli, A. wimani)
Archaeospheniscus is an extinct genus of large penguins. It currently contains three species, known from somewhat fragmentary remains. The genus is one of the earliest known primitive penguins.

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Penguinology
The study of penguins.
Penguinology is the study of penguins. It is a distinct type of study, and it takes many years to perfect it. Luckily, we have Professer Flower, or FlowerGirl. She has been a Professer in Penguinology for 6 years. Here she is to tell us a bit about Penguinology. Penguinology has come from a separate world, called Pengasia. Pengasia has many entrances, but you have to be invited to go. Pengasia has 3 main languages: Penguinese, Pengish, and Pengwana. Penguinese is the most used dialect and you must learn this before coming in to Pengasia. Every 2 years, Pengasia holds the Penglympics. Teams come from everywhere, but are not teams by country. They are teams by species. To be Continued...

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