Penguins

Penguins are a group of aquatic flightless birds from the family Spheniscidae of the order Sphenisciformes. They live almost exclusively in the Southern Hemisphere.

Quotes

• I suggest we depict penguins as callous and unfeeling creatures who insist on bringing up their children in what is little more than a large chest freezer.
  • Jasper Fforde, Something Rotten (2004), ch. 15

• The rules for the humans are do not disturb or hold up the penguin. Stand still and let him go on his way. And here, he's heading off into the interior of the vast continent. With 5,000 kilometers ahead of him, he's heading towards certain death.
  • Werner Herzog, Encounters at the End of the World (2008)

• The little penguins look alike
  Even as Ike resembles Mike.
  They are so gentle and so nice
  God keeps these little birds on ice.
  • Roland Young, "The Penguin", Not for Children (1930)