Food is found at ten to twenty meters below the water surface in the summer. They are excellent divers to retrieve their food. In the winter, their only food is found deep beneath the ocean surface, and the king penguin must dive from five minutes to an hour in order to find food. They eat only every fourteen days, so they loose half their weight in between feedings. They drink salt and fresh water and eat snow.
Penguins protect themselves by living in large colonies.
They have large beaks to peck at things that bother them. They also use camouflage . The white on their bodies make it hard to see in the snow and the black is hard to see in the dark under water. The eggs are colored and look like rocks. They go on land because there are no foxes or bears to eat them.