Behavior When parents stop taking care of the young, they must learn to fend for themselves. The adults, when hunting in the sea, live in groups of fifty to one hundred. While nurturing the young, however, the adults may live a more secluded life. These penguins live and hunt together and may look for food 50 km from their nesting grounds. Jackass Penguins are able to get this far from shore because they can swim up to 7 km per hour.
Individuals communicate to one another by squawking.
The Jackass Penguin gets its name from its loud braying call. An interesting behavior of this penguin is its manner of cooling off in the heat. The Jackass Penguin spends most of the day in the water and spends the cool night on land. Habitat The Jackass Penguin lives in the warmer latitudes between twenty and forty degrees south. This is not the only penguin species that lives in warmer climates.