Why don't penguins feet freeze?
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Read the book of the same name by New Scientist.
thats cheating!
Total Answers: 2, Total Page Views: 178.Because they are composed primarily of a cartiledge like material, which creates a barrier between the frozen environment beneath the penguins and their "feet". They also have very low blood flow. Thus, the cold cannot be transferred to the body.
most interesting and odd;cartiledge can't freeze? hmmp! Thanks!Paul
Yikes... ok, ok, If the truth were to be known...
Penguins levitate :)
even if they levitated they'd freeze their snowballs off as it is so very unimagineably bitter cold!
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