Do most penguins live in the South Pole or the North Pole? Why?

Most penguins live in the South Pole, because there is no land in the North Pole, and there is no condition for birds to originate before the earth gets cold.

Penguins once faced an evolutionary choice, whether to fly in the air or swim flexibly underwater. Usually, as the efficiency of penguins' wings becomes higher and higher when diving, their flying ability becomes weaker and weaker. At some point, flying becomes very laborious, so the best choice is to give up flying and let the wings shrink into fins.

Penguins mainly live in the southern hemisphere. It is known that there are 17 or 18 species of penguins in the world, most of which are distributed in the Antarctic region, and there are also penguins in Cape Town, a popular tourist city in South Africa on the African continent. Among them, Humboldt Penguin, Magellan Penguin and Blackfoot Penguin, which are ring penguins, are distributed in temperate regions with lower latitudes, while Galapagos Penguin is closer to the equator. Only emperor penguins and Adelie penguins live completely in the polar regions.

Extended data

Penguins usually live south of the equator and can only be seen in inaccessible places. Some penguins live in cold places, while others live in tropical areas. But penguins really don't like hot weather. They are only happy in cold climates. Therefore, there are the most penguins living in the cold ocean along the coast of Antarctica.

Penguin habitats vary with species and distribution areas: emperor penguins like to inhabit ice shelves and sea ice; Adelie penguins and golden earth penguins can live on exposed rocks in sea ice and ice-free areas. Most penguins in sub-Antarctic like to live on rocks in ice-free areas, and often use stones to build nests.

Reference source: Baidu Encyclopedia-Penguin