The Lenguin (Spheniscus pardus)

1. + By: Graham Heifner The Lenguin (Spheniscus pardus)

2. Its common name is the lenguin. Its scientific name is Spheniscus pardus. Binomial nomenclature

3. The Lenguin is a combination of 2 mammals, the leopard and the penguin. It has an endoskeleton and has hair. The Lenguin’s form of transportation is that of either walking or swimming (and he is a very good climber). He also has legs and flippers and a tail. How he looks and is built

4. The Lenguin is predator to both sea life and land life. It has flippers to help it glide through the water, it has sharp claws to help it catch and bring down its prey, and it has sharp fangs to bite and trap its prey. Feeding patterns

5. The Water energy pyramid Quaternary consumer shark Secondaryconsumer Tertiaryconsumer Lenguin Primary consumer Fish Primary producer Zooplankton Phytoplankton

6. The land energy pyramid Tertiary consumer Lenguin Secondary consumer lion Primary consumer Thompson gazelles Primary producer Plants

7. The Lenguin catches its food by strangling the creature using its fangs to bite and trap the creature. As you may have guessed, the Lenguin is a carnivore. The Lenguin eats in 2 different ways. First, if he is eating something small, he will just swallow it whole. The second way is if the lenguin kills something bigger than itself, it will take its prey to the nearest tree, hang it upside down, and begin the feast! diet

8. What it eats The lenguin likes to eat fish, lions, krill, and Thompson gazelles.

9. phytoplankton zoo plankton fish Lenguin shark Grass Thompson gazelles lion lenguin The food chain

10. The lenguin lives away from other lenguins because it is very cannibalistic. The adult lenguin makes its home in a cave and it rooms with a bear and elmo. It is a mutualistic relationship. The bear offers protection at night while the lenguin and elmo sleep, elmo provides a distraction for any predators during the day while the bear sleeps and while the lenguin is out hunting for food. But the caves are all close to the sea. The lifestlye

11. The lenguin likes to live in a very dark, dense, cave. As I said before, the lenguin is in a mutualistic relationship with the bear and elmo. Anyway, when raising their young, their motherly instincts take over. In other words, the young don’t get eaten. So to save her children, the lenguin will walk for days to get away from the general area where all the other lenguins are. For raising her young, the mother will hide them in the smallest cave possible, so that her young will be hidden, and will find a cave herself. But she does come to check on them daily. The home

12. The lenguin doesn’t have any predators except for the shark. The lenguin doesn’t really care if another animal says that there is a shark in the water, if it wants seafood, it is going to eat seafood. If it wants mammals, it will eat mammals. So anyway, the lenguin can out-swim any shark except if a pack of sharks has it surrounded. Then, the lenguin will let out its scream (it’s sort of like a bat sonar except for it is underwater). The scream penetrates the sharks’ brains and sends them retreating. Survival against predators

13. Scientists that have studied the lenguin have said that it can live up to about 136 years, but the oldest living lenguin reported in history lived to be 73. The lenguin is such an aggressive animal that they kill each other off. It starts as a baby making its journey to its new home, the smallest cave possible. There, its mom comes to check on it and brings food daily. After the lenguin has begun to feel uncomfortable, it knows that it is time to begin its adult life. By the way, the population of bears and elmos has skyrocketed so most of the caves in the U.S.A. have at least one elmo and one bear in it. Anyway, during its adult life, it has that mutualistic relationship that I was talking about earlier and it does that for 82 years. Then it goes and finds it a new cave and hibernates there for 28 years, which is a long time to be asleep. And then, on that 28th year of hibernation, it dies. Life Cycle

14. Well, you could argue both cases. It lives half of its life in the sea and half of its life on land. If it stays in the sea long enough, its blood will turn cold. But it usually doesn’t stay in the sea that long so I would have to say that the lenguin is a warm-blooded animal. Warm or cold blooded?

15. The lenguin only has three senses, but it uses those senses very exquisitely. It has amazing smell, it can smell prey from 2 ½ miles away! It has perfect hearing and can hear anything outside while it is sleeping, plus it can hear a twig break from up to 200 yards. The last sense it has is seeing. It can see so good that it has 10/15 vision. Senses

16. The lenguin has two forms of communicating. First on land, it sends out a high-pitched growl that it uses to scare off intruding animals with. Now I have mentioned how it has something like a bat sonar underwater but what you probably didn’t know is that this sonar also serves as a call to other lenguins in the water to help it bring down prey. Communications

17. Underwater, if a lenguin sees another lenguin about to try and get it, it will pick up anything and everything around it and start swimming away (I forgot to mention that the lenguin can also grip and throw very well). The other lenguin will start chasing it and occassionly the lenguin that is swimming a way will turn around and hit its pursuer with something. After a while, with the chase still dragging on, the pursuing lenguin will give up. Protection in water

18. Now on land the method of escaping is about as different as it can get. The lenguin will use its speed to outrun the attacker and lead it straight into the lenguin’s cave where it will wake up the bear and the three (including elmo) will throw down on the attacker. Protection on land

19. The only way that humans could ever hurt the lenguin is by shooting it and thanks to the “no poaching or shooting of the lenguin population” law of 2578, that can never happen. P.S. If that did happen, the lenguin would bite the person’s neck off. P.S.S. The lenguin is not affected by waste. Human harmings