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Keywords Polar bears Copyright Information This article is licensed under GNU Public License. Some of the images in this article may have different copyright licenses. Please follow the URLs of the images for detailed information about their specific copyright licenses. Contact webmasters for more information on copyright issues. Content Penguins only live in southern hemisphere. Most of them live near Antarctica, however, there are a few penguins "on the southern coasts of Australia, New Zealand, and Africa, along the western coast of South America". Also note that Penguins are birds. They cannot fly, but they do swim. [A] Polar bears, however, only lives near the north pole. Therefore, for now as of 2005, it's safe to say that penguin and polar bears never live together. Comments References [A] http://www.greece.k12.ny.us/pi/First/kerber/Penguins/WebquestAnswers.htm Webster Unabridged Pen"guin (?), n. [Perh. orig. the name of another bird, and fr. W. pen head + gwyn white; or perh. from a native South American name.] 1. (Zoöl.) Any bird of the order Impennes, or Ptilopteri. They are covered with short, thick feathers, almost scalelike on the wings, which are without true quills. They are unable to fly, but use their wings to aid in diving, in which they are very expert. See King penguin, under Jackass. &fist; Penguins are found in the south temperate and antarctic regions. The king penguins (Aptenodytes Patachonica, and A. longirostris) are the largest; the jackass penguins (Spheniscus) and the rock hoppers (Catarractes) congregate in large numbers at their breeding grounds. 2. (Bot.) The egg-shaped fleshy fruit of a West Indian plant (Bromelia Pinguin) of the Pineapple family; also, the plant itself, which has rigid, pointed, and spiny- toothed leaves, and is used for hedges. [Written also pinguin.] Arctic penguin (Zoöl.), the great auk. See Auk. (search time: 15.577 msec) English-Chinese penguin ['pengwin] Æó¶ì (search time: 42.304 msec)