Apart from Little Penguins, they have several common names.

In Sydney, snipers have been deployed to protect a colony of Little Penguins.

Penguins have an average sense of hearing for birds ; this is used by parents and chicks to locate one another in crowded colonies.

Penguins have a thick layer of insulating feathers that keeps them warm in water ( heat loss in water is much greater than in air ).

Penguins seem to have no special fear of humans, and have approached groups of explorers without hesitation.

Penguins have been the subject of many books and films such as Happy Feet, Surf's Up and The Penguins of Madagascar, all CGI films ; March of the Penguins, a documentary based on the migration process of the Emperor Penguin ; and a parody titled Farce of the Penguins.

Penguins have also found their way into a number of cartoons and television dramas ; perhaps the most notable of these is Pingu, created by Silvio Mazzola in 1986 and covering more than 100 short episodes.

Several pro, minor, college and high school sport teams have named themselves after the species, with the Pittsburgh Penguins team in the National Hockey League and the Youngstown State Penguins being the most recognizable.

: Penguins have wings.

Historically, their biggest rivals have been the New York Rangers, with an intense rivalry stretching back to the 1970s, the New Jersey Devils, with whom they traded the Atlantic Division title every season between and, and their bitter cross-state rivals the Pittsburgh Penguins.

Around the same time, rumors had begun to circulate that the Penguins and California Golden Seals were to be relocated to Seattle and Denver respectively, the two cities that were to have been the sites of an expansion for the 1976 – 77 season.

Players from the Pittsburgh Penguins have won the trophy 14 times ( within 24 seasons ); players from the Montreal Canadiens have won it nine times ; and the Chicago Blackhawks have seen players win the award eight times.

Teams that have switched from athletic gold to a metallic shade include the Minnesota North Stars ( now the Dallas Stars ), Pittsburgh Penguins, and Anaheim Ducks.

The Kings, Canucks, and Penguins have also worn gold sweaters color in the past.

Penguins have them also in the flippers and nasal passages.

Members of the Pittsburgh Penguins have won the award the most number of times, with eight winners, followed by the Edmonton Oilers, with six winners.

In early 1975, newspapers reported that the Seals and Pittsburgh Penguins were to be relocated to Denver and Seattle, respectively, in an arrangement that would have seen the two teams sold to groups in those cities that had already been awarded " conditional " franchises for the 1976-77 season.

The Pirates would later have a connection with Pittsburgh's next NHL franchise ; the Pittsburgh Penguins.

The Hollywood Flames had also recorded " I Know " in 1953, a song which has been called " a chord-for-chord blueprint for " Earth Angel ," and which featured the same Curtis Williams piano intro that Williams himself reused on the Penguins hit.

Before the Penguins, Pittsburgh had been the home of the NHL's Pirates from 1925 to 1932 and of the Hornets AHL franchise from the 1930s to 1967.

In 1998-99, the Penguins had an average attendance 14, 825 tickets at home games, the lowest it had been since Lemieux's rookie year.

The Penguins chose highly touted junior league player Sidney Crosby from the Rimouski Océanic of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, who had been training with Lemieux over the summer.

On the Penguins ' final game of the season, Crosby scored a goal and an assist to become the top scoring rookie in Penguins history with 102 points ( eclipsing Lemieux ), despite losing the rookie scoring race to Russian superstar Ovechkin, who, unlike Malkin, was also set to debut that season, been able to make his way to the NHL.

There has been a gradual shift towards Nicktoon series using three-dimensional computer animation rather than traditional or digital two-dimensional ink and paint ; the introductions of The Penguins of Madagascar and Fanboy and Chum Chum to the channel's lineup reflect this.

This trait has also been seen among Emperor Penguins.

The sound has been identified as an Important Bird Area by BirdLife International because it is a breeding site for Fiordland Penguins.

Stojanov, who had been drafted eight spots ahead of Näslund in the 1991 Draft, went on to play 45 games, scoring two goals and four assists for the Penguins over the next two seasons.

* Antarctic Fur Seals on Marion Island have also been seen chasing King Penguins on the beach, killing and eating them.

Macaroni Penguins range from the subantarctic to the Antarctic Peninsula ; at least 216 breeding colonies at 50 sites have been recorded.

Although the population of Macaroni Penguins is estimated at around 18 million mature individuals, a substantial decline has been recorded in several locations.

Macaroni Penguins normally forage at depths of, but have been recorded diving down to on occasions.

The sound has been identified as an Important Bird Area by BirdLife International because it is a breeding site for Fiordland Penguins.

Whether or not Yellow-eyed Penguins are colonial nesters has been an ongoing issue with zoologists in New Zealand.

The American Hockey League, where Bourdon had played for the Manitoba Moose, observed a moment of silence in Bourdon's honour prior to game one of the Calder Cup Finals between the Chicago Wolves and the Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins just hours after the accident, and on May 31, the Pittsburgh Penguins and Detroit Red Wings observed a moment of silence before game four of the 2008 Stanley Cup Final.

Macaroni Penguins, particularly those on adjacent nests, may engage in bill-jousting ; birds lock bills and wrestle, each trying to unseat the other, as well as batter with flippers and peck or strike their opponent's nape.

The American sicophysiologist Gerry Kooyman revolutionized the study of penguin foraging behaviour in 1971 when he published his results from attaching automatic dive-recording devices to Emperor Penguins, and recording a dive of by a King Penguin in 1982.

George Murray Levick, who documented this behaviour in Adélie Penguins at Cape Adare, described it as " depraved ".

The Penguins had collapsed financially since the cup winning years of the early 90s.

On October 29, 2000, in a 9-0 victory against the Pittsburgh Penguins, Madden and Randy McKay became the first NHL teammates to each score four goals in one game since January 14, 1922.

Penguins have both feathers and fat, since their need for streamlining limits the degree of insulation which feathers alone can give them.

The following season, Gonchar helped lead the Penguins, with offensive superstars Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin, to the 2008 Stanley Cup Finals, the franchise's first finals appearance since 1992.

* May 4, 2000: Keith Primeau of the Philadelphia Flyers put a shot over the left shoulder of Pittsburgh Penguins goaltender Ron Tugnutt with 7: 59 remaining in the 5th OT ending the longest game since 1936.

The Red Wings have been very successful since the move to Joe Louis Arena, winning four Stanley Cup championships ( with two of them, 1997 and 2002, taking place with the Cup clinching victory at home ), and playing in two additional Stanley Cup Finals, in 1995 against the New Jersey Devils and in 2009 against the Pittsburgh Penguins.

In 1992 – 93, Tippett had his best offensive season since 1989 – 90, as he scored six goals and 25 points in 74 games, helping the Pittsburgh Penguins win the President's Trophy.

In 2008, a parody attack ad based on the then-upcoming Presidential election was made to " attack " the Parrot, due to the Pirates then-16 consecutive losing seasons ( which has since increased to 19 ) while the Penguins went on the lose in the Stanley Cup Finals to the Detroit Red Wings earlier in the year.

With their rivals the Boston Bruins being eliminated by the Sabres in the division semifinals, as well as the two-time defending Cup champions Pittsburgh Penguins being eliminated by the Islanders in the division final, Montreal's path to their first final since became much easier.

Emery's strong play in the season continued on in the playoffs, as the Senators defeated the Pittsburgh Penguins, New Jersey Devils and Buffalo Sabres each in five games en route to their first Stanley Cup Final appearance since the team returned to the NHL in 1992, where the Senators lost to the Anaheim Ducks in five games.

Following a series victory over the Washington Capitals in the first round of the 2010 Stanley Cup Playoffs, Cammalleri led the Canadiens into the conference finals for the first time since 1993 by tying a franchise record for goals in one series in a victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins.

He played in the IHL with the Long Beach Ice Dogs and then the Deutsche Eishockey Liga in which he has played for the Schwenningen Wild Wings, Krefeld Penguins and now the Hannover Scorpions, a club he has played on since the 2003 – 04 season.