Do penguins have fur or feathers?

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Feathers. Their feathers are obviously going to be a little different than typical bird feathers, though. They're short, broad, stiff, and thinly spaced on the body.

http://www.seaworld.org/animal-info/info...

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fur! i like your pictrure!

good luck!

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Penguins have feathers. That is one thing that all birds have in common. They have feathers.

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Penguins have small feathers, that's what makes them a bird. The feathers have oil to keep out water when they swim.

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Penguins have feathers, but a lot of it is "down". Down is a soft feather that's close to the skin and traps the body heat, keeping the bird warm.

Ducks and other birds have down, too. Down comforters and pillows are made from goose down, if they're good quality. It's possible to pull out the down without injuring the animal. They don't like it, but it doesn't kill them. In the old days, farm women would hold a goose on her lap and pull out the down, then let the goose go. Its down would grow back. The farm wife would use the down for comforters or feather beds. It took a long time to get enough down for a bed, so the down was often saved for a long time and the feather bed was a valuable item given to a child upon marriage.

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Like all birds, penguins have feathers. In this case, the feathers are very short and lack the pennaceous part (the feather vane), so they appear as keratinous "sticks" which look like hair (fur) because they're so dense.
Here's a closeup photo of a penguin flipper-like wing
http://www.fishcat.com/antarctica/day3/p...

You can see the small flat feathers (they look more like scales, actually); note that the ones on the edge of the wing are a bit longer and more like a typical feather.

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Feathers. Though penguins look like they are covered in fur, they are actually covered in feathers packed together about 12 feathers per cm2. Each feather, believe it or not, is about 3 inches long. These feathers are oily, so when a penguin dives into the water, their skin doesn't even get wet! Air is one of the best insulators there is. What the penguin's feathers do is trap heat between their skin and the actual feathers and the penguin's body heat heats the air.

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feathers

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Penguins are birds, therefore they have feathers.

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They have fur.

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They have feathers, but it doesn't look like it. All birds have feathers.

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penguins have feathers just like all other birds. but they are very small and very close together so they can be water proof and keep the penguin warm.