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I'll assume the fingered gloves are there to make them more humanoid. I highly doubt the artist will go out of their way to make fingers when they can just quickly draw a flipper-glove. That brown penguin from the SWF file, with the creepy fingers, isn't really an easter egg. The artist knows they're going to draw over it to make a glove, so to make things easier they use a base. Simple.

Also, with all the creepy bending and such... Yeah. It is to make penguins more "fluid" and "flexible", but consequently human.

I do miss the Middle CP penguins, though...