- African penguins have a black upside down U-shape on their neck with black speckles on their chest.
- They are about 2 feet tall and weigh between 7 and 11 pounds.
- African penguins live and breed on the coast of South Africa.
- People have hunted these penguins so much that their numbers declined from at least one million to about150,000.
- They are now a protected species, but are still caused trouble by oil spills off the coast of Africa.
- African penguins are also known as the Blackfoot penguin.
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