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Why are penguins black and white colour?

 

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The aforementioned could be asked for any animal.

Answers :thats the way they were born.... just like how grass is green....

Answers :bc there kool like that..[=

Answers :Cuz they're air-conditioned like that! Why are you derma colored???

Answers :bcuz they are...

Answers :A adjudicator got into the bird cage on the ark

Answers :"All penguins are countershaded for appearance – that is, they accept a white base and a aphotic (mostly black) upperside. A predator searching up from beneath (such as an orca or a bobcat seal) has adversity appropriate amid a white penguin abdomen and the cogitating baptize surface. The aphotic bunch on their backs camouflages them from above."

Now why is a Adjudicator atramentous and white?
LOL just kiddin

peace

Answers :cause they wish to attending like there cutting a tux, lol.

Answers :God fabricated them that way.

Answers :White: reflects sunshine reflected from the snow.

Black: Attracts calefaction in the algid winter.

Answers :exactically ask the creator,

Answers :because Battlefield 2 is a acceptable game

Answers :i dont absolutely anticipate there is any reason. haha

Answers :so sharks and lions don't eat their butts :)

because if you bathe in the ocean you wish to attending aphotic from the top to alloy in with the arena and white from the basal to alloy in with the ice.

Answers :because with their analysis their atramentous and white cuz do you see annihilation abroad breeding with a penguin??????

Answers :Because it dont amount if there atramentous or white

M.jackson

Answers :why are you getting so racist?

Answers :If you attending anxiously I anticipate you'll acquisition they're in fact white and black.

Answers :All penguins are countershaded for appearance – that is, they accept a white base and a aphotic (mostly black) upperside. A predator searching up from beneath (such as an orca or a bobcat seal) has adversity appropriate amid a white penguin abdomen and the cogitating baptize surface. The aphotic bunch on their backs camouflages them from above.

Answers :So they can alloy in with their surroundings. (White snow, atramentous rocks)

Answers :So they can be buried in the snow (white) and be buried in the baptize (black).

Answers :i dont apperceive agents or science or your ancestors apperceive that so ask them ok they will you the acknowledgment accuracy me ok bye

Answers :Because God accept to of anticipation they looked acceptable in tuxes!

Answers :The accepted acumen accustomed is that it provides appearance if the birds are in the water. The atramentous backs beggarly that the penguins are difficult to see from aloft adjoin the aphotic seas, while the white fronts accomplish them harder to see from beneath adjoin the ablaze sky. Thus predators such as seals, sharks and Killer Whales will acquisition it difficult to coursing penguins. Another account sometimes appropriate is that the penguins can use their colouration as a anatomy of thermal control. If they are algid they can angle with their atramentous backs to the sun and so blot heat, while if they are hot they can angle with their white fronts to the sun and reflect the sun's rays. This additional account may be accurate in a few bound cases, but abounding breed of penguin backup in the accessible and will consistently accept their atramentous backs upward, so that even on hot, brilliant days, they will be arresting heat. We accept apparent African penguins on nests acceptable absolutely overheated because of a able sun. These ever hot birds lie with their flippers continued to try to afford some calefaction and aswell accessible their mouths and blow to try to lose some added calefaction that way.

Answers :because that is the way they wish to be... leave them alone!

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Answers :Because it they were amber and blue, you'd ask the aforementioned question, but afflicted colors...
Actually, there's a acumen for it, but it's too continued to explain. Do some research.

Answers :what's atramentous white and red
a penguin with sun burn

Answers :because the white blends in with snow and... the atramentous makes them not airy to added penguins?? something about appearance and ambiance anyway!

Answers :so that if they are swimming, Creatures from beneath that are searching advancement from beneath the penguin won't be able to see it as able-bodied be could cause the penguin's underbally is white which helps alloy in with ice or just the animation from above. And if predators attending down from aloft a penguin, the atramentous blends in with the black beneath in the baptize .

Adaptations! To advice them reside :)

Answers :haha. wow. ask god.
Nitrogen seems a acceptable candidate.

What is your answer?

Why are penguins black and white colour?



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