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Do penguins have teeth

Updated: 9/13/2023
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No, penguins do not have teeth.

Like other birds, they have a beak and swallow their food whole. Gravel in the muscular gizzard grinds up the food to aid digestion, taking the place of chewing.

Most of their food is small fish, squid, krill and other small crustaceans.

Penguins feed their babies by coughing up partly digested food into the eager babies gaping mouth. Some penguins completely digest the food first, while others just store the food in their stomach and deliver the tiny food items whole.

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