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<b><i><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">Can you anwer the </span><span style="color: red; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://factoflife.net/animals/interesting-penguin-facts-for-kids.html" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">penguin facts</a></span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"> questions: Why can't peguins fly though they are birds? </span><span style="font-size: 15.3333px;">What characteristics of penguins help them to swim? </span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">You can’t say that you haven’t because that means that you
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Penguins are the acrobatic athletes of the seas, and they can keep diving for long periods of time because they have exquisite control over how and when their muscles use oxygen, new research indicates.</div>
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The penguins can switch between two modes of oxygen use — either starving their muscles or giving them an extra shot of oxygen to keep them working — to achieve their amazing dives.</div>
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"It appears that there's a little bit of plasticity or variability in what they do when they are diving," said study researcher Cassondra Williams of the University of California in San Diego. "It's much more complicated than we thought." [Infographic: The Ocean's Deepest Divers]</div>
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<i>Emperor penguin jumping out of an ice hole.Credit: Cassondra Williams</i></div>
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<i>Emperor Penguins in the ice.Credit: Paul Ponganis</i></div>
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To figure out how penguins survive deep dives on a single breath of air, the researchers designed special probes to monitor the levels of oxygen in the penguins' muscles during their dives off McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. The results are based on three emperor penguins and 50 dives, which ranged from 23 to 210 feet (7 to 64 meters) in depth, which lasted from 2.3 to 11.4 minutes.</div>
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"They have two different patterns they can opt for while they are diving," Williams told LiveScience. "In one, they appear to cut off blood flow completely to the muscle, leaving it to rely on its own supplies, which leaves the blood oxygen for the rest of the body, like the brain and the heart."</div>
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In other dives, the researchers saw a plateau after the initial oxygen drop. They believe that the penguin is selectively sending extra oxygen from the blood into the muscles, so they don't get tired. They can only do this for a limited time, though, until blood oxygen levels become too low for the rest of the body. Eventually the penguins need to come up for air.</div>
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<i>Emperor Penguin on the iceCredit: Cassondra Williams</i></div>
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Cutting off the oxygen supply to the muscles forces them to start making energy using "anaerobic" respiration, which is done without oxygen. It has a downfall, though; it produces a byproduct called lactic acid that can be toxic in high doses.</div>
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If the penguins let the lactic acid accumulate in their muscles, it takes longer to recuperate after a long dive, the researchers believe. This may be why on some dives the penguins send extra oxygen. For example, an extra oxygen shot might be beneficial if the penguins are taking</div>
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several dives during a short stint to, say, chase down a school of fish and don't want to lose the feeding opportunity while they spend additional time on the ice recuperating.</div>
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"They don't want to hit their aerobic limit and accumulate lactic acid, but it's not clear how or why they do that," Williams said.</div>
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