Yesterday we visited a Penguin Sanctuary located in Boulder Beach, just an hour or so from Cape Town. African Penguins are endangered species, of the 1.5 million estimated in 1910, only 10 % remain at the end of the 20th century.
-Swim at an average speed of seven kilometers per hour and can stay under water for 2 minutes.
-Their predators are sharks, seal, and sometimes killer whales. On land they are threatened by mongoose, domestic cats and dogs, and the Kelp Gulls, who steal their eggs and new born chicks.
-Their black and white coloring acts as a form of camouflage. White is for underwater predators looking upwards and black is for predators looking down into the water.
-They are and endangered species
Miss Brady in South Africa 
African Penguins have faced and continue to face a myriad of threats to their survival, from displacement by humans, to predation by domestic and feral dogs and cats and introduced species, climate change and overfishing, “guano scraping” that removes the substrate they rely on for digging their burrows, environmental disasters caused by majors oil spills and the list goes on. Katie, thank you for sharing these photos and reporting about this beautiful, endangered bird. Everywhere, we see how the choices we make affect all species and the collective health of our world.
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