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Yellow-Eyed Penguins

Yellow-Eyed Penguins
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     edHelper's suggested reading level:   grades 4 to 7
     Flesch-Kincaid grade level:   8.42

Vocabulary
     challenging words:    greeting, incubation, striking, among, responsibility, species, yellow-eyed, hatching, partner, fetch, feeling, occupy, territory, amount, staying, distinctive
     content words:    New Zealand

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Yellow-Eyed Penguins   
1     Among all 18 species of penguins, the yellow-eyed penguin is the oddest one! Living in the southern part of New Zealand, the yellow-eyed penguin is the only type of penguin that likes to live alone. It is also the rarest type of penguin. There are only about 6,000 yellow-eyed penguins left in the world.
 
2     Wearing a grayish blue feather jacket, the yellow-eyed penguin has cat-like yellow irises and a striking yellow headband. Interestingly, the Maori, the aboriginal people of New Zealand, named this bird not for its distinctive eyes and headband, but for its voice. They called this bird "hoiho" which means noise shouter. The yellow-eyed penguin gives out high-pitched, ear-piercing calls when it is claiming territory, courting, greeting each other, or feeling threatened. Sometimes, we hear its calls before we see a yellow-eyed penguin.

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