This streamlined design helps penguins swim fast. According to some animal experts, the penguin is one of the most streamlined animals in the world.ДЄ penguinвЂ™s body is tapered at both ends and it has a large head, short neck and elongated body. The ladies use these rocks to build a nest. Many male penguins gift female penguins with rocks in order to woo them. They use their feet like rudders, angling them to help control direction. Penguin feet are also adapted to help the birds steer while swimming. Some species ofВ penguins can march up to about 60 miles across sea ice to get to their breeding grounds. ThatвЂ™s because penguins live south of the equator while polar bears north of the equator in Arctic! Penguin feet are adapted to walk long distances. Contrary to many popular holiday cartoons, youвЂ™ll never see penguins and polar bears together in the wild. You can find them in Antarctica and Antarctic islands, the Galapagos Islands off the coast of Ecuador, South Africa, New Zealand, Australia, Peru and Chile. Penguins live in many locations and habitats.

Penguins spend several hours each day covering their feathers with this oil and give extra attention to the task before swimming. A penguinвЂ™s thick feathers arenвЂ™t the only way this bird stays warm.ДЄ gland near the base of its tail provides waterproof oil. This helps them swim because solid bones reduce buoyancy-the tendency to float. Penguins adapted with solid bones instead. Most birds have hollow, air-filled bones to help them stay light for flight. In frigid habitats, huddling helps penguins retain warmth. This behavior helps these birds protect themselves from predators. Penguins may huddle together for several reasons. Their white bellies help them blend in with the bright surface of the ocean when viewed by predators and prey from below. When swimming, the black on their backs helps them blend in with the darkness of the ocean from predators viewing from above. The black and white вЂњtuxedoвЂќ look donned by most penguin species is a clever camouflage called countershading. Other names for a group of penguins includeВ rookery, colony, and huddle. Mark Skapinker, Delrina's president, expects to sell 'tens of thousands of units of Opus 'N Bill.' Each product sells for about $30.A group of penguins in the water is called a raft but on land theyвЂ™re called a waddle! Boyd said Berkeley Systems made a gross profit of $20 million last year from its screen savers and expects to exceed that this year. Shotgun-toting penguins and airborne toasters aside, the bottom line in this controversy is the bottom line. Breathed used the toasters in his comic strip, because people would read it - not because of the toasters but because the strip already exists and has a large following. Boyd said he would have no problem if Mr. 'But the difference between parody and a knockoff is the difference between fun and profit.' Mr. 'We don't want to seem humorless - in fact our whole business is based on humor and whimsy,' Mr. Boyd says Delrina's promotional material and store displays also prominently feature the toaster scene.

The Opus 'N Bill package features several pictures of the toasters being blasted. Wesley Boyd, the president and chief executive of Berkeley Systems, says Delrina's entire marketing strategy is based on using his company's copyrighted and trademarked symbols. 'What it comes down to is Berkeley Systems saying our parody of flying toasters shouldn't use flying toasters,' he said. Marshall Nelson, Delrina's lawyer, said the suit had no merit. The current crop of screen savers is used to personalize the idle screen with pictures and even sound effects.Дelrina asserts that its product is just a parody of a well-known computer industry symbol. The original purpose was to prevent a single image from burning into the screen and producing a 'ghost' effect. Boyd said Berkeley Systems made a gross profit of 20 million last year from its. Screen savers are computer programs that display colorful images when a computer is turned on but not being used. Shotgun-toting penguins and airborne toasters aside, the bottom line in this controversy is the bottom line. Berkeley Systems has filed suit to stop Delrina from distributing Opus 'N Bill, asserting that it infringes the company's copyrights and trademarks and constitutes unfair competition. of Berkeley, Calif., which markets the top-selling screen saver, After Dark, which features the famed flying toasters. of Toronto, parodies a number of sacred cows, including President Clinton the chairman of Microsoft, Bill Gates, and even Socks, the Presidential cat.Д«ut taking potshots at the toasters went too far, according to Berkeley Systems Inc. The Opus 'N Bill program, distributed by Delrina Inc. The cartoonist Berke Breathed has moved his iconoclastic comic strip characters into the competitive world of computer screen savers. This time for shooting at flying toasters. Opus the Penguin, of 'Outland' and 'Bloom County' fame, is in trouble again.

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