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Animal: Animal Group: Description of animal group || King Penguin 2. Scientifically known as: (//Aptenodytes patagonicus//) Bird-Mammal Any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair; young are born alive except for the small sub-class of monotremes and nourished with milk. Birds are animals that fly and have wings and usually feed on seafood. || Observation
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 * Source 1: || [|**Wikipedia** - **Wikipedia**, the free encyclopedia] ||
 * Source 2: || [|**King penguins** - Australian Antarctic Division] ||
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Describe your animal (Colour, size, body parts) || The King Penguin has black webbed feet ideal for swimming, they have an orange spot on their chins and some closer to their chest. They have a dark black head and like to stick in groups, They have a white body and grey wings and back. They have a orangie-red colour on the bottom of their beaks. They range between 85-95cm tall and weigh the males weigh 16.5kg and for females 15.3kg. || Describe how your animal behaves (moves, flies, runs) || The King Penguin, like all other penguins, waddle. They move their bodies from side-side and this is because it has a body especially shaped for swimming so they can swim fast in the sea. They se their wide wings to propellor through the seas. They use their webbed feet as a boost and kick. || Where it lives || King penguins establish colonies on temperate-cool islands with low, bare ground (including beaches, valleys, and glacial moraines). These penguins are both terrestrial and aquatic: terrestrial while breeding in colonies and aquatic for purposes of finding food. In these colonies, the temperature is near to or below 10 degrees Celsius. Rarely are king penguins found on ice or snow covered grounds. They prefer to be close to the sea, allowing for a convenient food source. || What it eats How it eats || King penguin are quite specialised feeders. Most of their diet consists of lantern fish and squid. King Penguins hunt in groups; this way experience can be gained from the older animals, who know where to find the prey. (we actually don’t know whether the young ones stay with the older animals. Probably not. First because they leave the breeding colonies at different times to most adults, and second because they don’t breed until they are a few years old, they are free to go wherever they want. Breeding adults are much more restricted.)Their food is found at about 10-200 metres below the surface in the summer, and they are excellent divers in order to retrieve their food. King penguins travel hundreds of kilometres to catch their prey. In the winter, some of the fish they depend upon in summer move to deeper waters. King penguins then eat more squid because they cannot dive much beyond 300 m. Dives last an average 2 to 5 minutes but dives lasting more than 8 minutes have been recorded. They hunt every day for several hours. This is particularly important before they moult. During the moult, the penguins are no longer waterproof and have to stay on land. For that time they rely entirely on body reserves that have to be laid down a month or so before the moult starts. During the moult, the penguins can loose up to 50% of their body mass. When at sea, they drink salt water. At their breeding colonies, they drink freshwater or eat snow if it is available. || How does it have babies? How does it care for its babies? How long do they live? || Breeding behavior of the //Aptenodytes patagonicus// is heralded by the trumpet-like song of the male, who also exhibits a variety of courting behaviors such as extending the head up, throwing the head back and bowing to attract a female. Females lay their eggs during the summer months and males and females alternate incubating. Like the [|emperor penguin], king penguins do not build nests; they incubate the eggs by carrying them on top of the feet under the belly. This species will raise 2 chicks only every 3 years because of the long brooding period that lasts about a year.
 * Source 1: || [|**King Penguins** - Wildlife of Antarctica - Antarctic Connection] ||
 * Source 2: || I had a look at them on Google images and used my own words. ||
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 * Source 1: || [|**King penguins** - Australian Antarctic Division] ||
 * Source 2: || [|**King Penguins**] ||
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 * Source 1: || [|**King Penguin**, Aptenodytes patagonicus at MarineBio.org] ||
 * Source 2: || [|**King Penguin**] ||
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 * Source 1: || [|**King Penguin**, Aptenodytes patagonicus at MarineBio.org] ||
 * Source 2: || [|**King Penguin** Aptenodytes patagonica] ||
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|| What does it do during the day and night? || Penguins are excellent swimmers, and they live as well, if not better, in water as they do on land. During the day, the King Penguin walks on land or ice, and smooth rocks. In the snow, they move forward by sliding on their bellies. In the water, their legs and their tail (which is streamlined and shaped like a triangle) serve as a steering rudder; and with their flippers they propel themselves through the water. When diving deep repeatedly their body temperature drops in the water, and they playfully dive up and down until they have eaten enough. At night they rest by putting their beaks in their wings and they stay standing up. || How has it changed over time in Antarctica? || King penguins have adapted well to their extreme living conditions in the subantarctic. To keep warm, the penguins have four layers of feathering. King Penguins have 70 feathers per every square inch. The outer layers are oiled and waterproof, not unlike the feathering of a duck. The inner three layers are down feathers, very effective insulation. A chick is born without the oily outer layer, and therefore cannot fish until maturity. A King Penguin chick has a dark coloration of downy feathers.They remain on land and do not go into the water until their down feathers have fallen off. || Type in the content of your page here.
 * Source 1: || [|**Penguins**: **King Penguins** - Aptenodytes patagonicus] ||
 * Source 2: || [|Aptenodytes patagonicus (**King Penguin**)] ||
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 * Source 1: || [|**PENGUINS** - **Behavior**] ||
 * Source 2: || [|BBC - Science & Nature - Wildfacts - **King penguin**] ||
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 * Source 1: || [|**King Penguin** - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia] ||
 * Source 2: || [|**PENGUINS** - **Adaptations** for an Aquatic Environment] ||
 * **Threats:** || We are infact a threat to the King Penguins! We can sometimes put rubbish on the floor and forget to pick it up the it blows into the water and it pollutes their water! We can save King Penguins so that we can enjoy the fact that we have such a wonderful creature to look at and discover. We also sometimes take their food by fishing too much fish out of the water and forget that we are taking Penguins off thae chart. Other animal threats are....Leopard seals, marine carnivorous, fur seal and the snowy sheathbill. ||
 * Source 1: || [|**Wikipedia**, the free encyclopedia] ||
 * Source 2: || [|**King penguins** - Australian Antarctic Division] ||
 * **Other Facts:** || They are the second biggest Penguin in the world just under the Emperor Penguin.The total population is estimated to be 2.23 million pairs and is increasing.the King Penguin is able to drink salt water because of their supraorbital gland which filters excess salt from their blood stream by way of a capillary just above the penguin's eyes. The excess salt is then expelled through the penguin's nose in a very salty brine.The species has been bred in captivity at SeaWorld in San Diego, USA. The species is exhibited at sea world in Orlando, Florida, USA,in Scotland,in Switzerland,in Seoul, and Melbourne Aquarium in Australia. ||
 * Source 1: || [|**King Penguin** - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia] ||
 * Source 2: || [|**King Penguin** - Species Fact Sheet] ||