Did you know that there are penguins that live in the desert?

This penguin called Humboldt penguins. Most kinds of penguins live where it is cold, but Humboldt penguins are definitely different. 
They live along the desert coast of Peru and Chile in South America. It is a very unusual environment, and you might not think penguins (or much of anything) would live there. The coast is where one of the world’s driest deserts (in some places it hasn’t rained for 20 years!) meets one of the world’s most fertile oceans.



Humboldt penguins spend most of their time in the ocean, primarily in the Humboldt Current (which they were named after). The Humboldt Current is a long, narrow flow of cool water that runs north from Antarctica. In the ocean, these penguins are graceful and quick swimmers. On land it is another story. They come ashore only to lay eggs and raise their young. While they are on shore they waddle awkwardly, but they are able to hop and jump among the rocks and sand to get around.

source : http://brookfieldzoo.org/CZS/Humboldt