Cindey Stevenson, age 11, of Peoria, Illinois, for her question:

Why don't penguins live in the Arctic?

As a rule, the different animals stay more or less where Mother Nature put them. This works out fine because this is where they find their favorite foods. And in most cases, the weather is just right for them. Most of the world's penguins are very happy down there in the south polar region of Antarctica. They cannot fly like most birds. And there is no reason why they should swim at least 10,000 miles to get to the Arctic around the North Pole.

Some penguins live on the Galapagos Islands, which are right at the equator. Ages ago they, too, lived way down near the South Pole. But scientists think that they did not move up to the equator on purpose. Sometimes great stormy winds howl up from the South Pole and blow the penguins far from home. Some were blown as far as the equator. But so far no big winds have blown any South Pole penguins as far north as the Arctic.