The African Penguin
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The small African Penguin lives in south and southwest Africa. It
only stands about twenty-seven and a half inches off the ground and weighs
about six and four tenths pounds. is black and white.
It has a broad black band that curves around their front and looks like an
inverted horseshoe, and th ....
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.... some twenty
islands, from Hollams Bird Island off the coast of Namibia to Bird Island
in Algoa Bay.
At one time the population of the African Penguin was quite large
but some man caused factors has drastically reduced their species. A long
time ago the early European settlers at the Cape of Good Hope realized that
penguin eggs were good for eating and over the years millions of penguin
eggs have been collected greatly reducing the population of the African
penguin species, and even t ....
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