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King Penguin — printable fact sheet
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King Penguin
Aptenodytes patagonicus
The King Penguin is the second largest species of penguin, distinguished by its striking orange-yellow patches on the side of its head and upper chest. Highly adapted to cold environments, it breeds on subantarctic islands with large colonies numbering in the thousands. King Pen…
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- Unlike most birds, King Penguin chicks take over a year to fledge and are cared for by their parents through the harsh winter.
- King Penguins can dive deeper and longer than most other penguin species, sometimes staying underwater for up to 5 minutes. They don't build nests, instead balancing their eggs on their feet under a flap of skin called a brood pouch. Their colonies can be so dense that they appear as a moving carpet of black, white, and orange.
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