(#47) Puffin Taking Off
Although Atlantic Puffins and Penguins share many similarities- especially in their looks- they aren't even distantly related. What has made them so alike is a need to survive in strikingly similar environments. Cold marine places, one close to the North pole and one the South, demand that a diving bird's body be densely feathered and streamlined.......Main difference: Puffins can fly.(Reader's Digest: Book of N. American Birds.)
(#47) Puffin Taking Off
Although Atlantic Puffins and Penguins share many similarities- especially in their looks- they aren't even distantly related. What has made them so alike is a need to survive in strikingly similar environments. Cold marine places, one close to the North pole and one the South, demand that a diving bird's body be densely feathered and streamlined.......Main difference: Puffins can fly.(Reader's Digest: Book of N. American Birds.)