Scientific name:
Aptenodytes patagonica

Natural spread:
Antarctica

king-penguins is somewhat smaller than its "cousin" with 90-110 cm of length, the emperor-penguins, and with approximately 15 kg of weight only approximately half so heavily as those. they live in the "more restrained" sub-antarctic coasts (fire-country of South-Georgia, the Kerguelen and Macquarie-Inseln) and need any so thick bulge for the heat-isolation.

Brood-habits The two types of the big-penguins (type Aptenodytes) have different brood-habits in principle, because emperor-penguins erbrüten its single egg in the antarctic winter (May until September), during king-penguins its boys in the South-summer (Octobers until March) comes up. Differently than both alto-birds incubate the single egg for 50-57 days with the emperor-penguins with them.

The winter, that is not as roughly as at those of the emperor-penguins at the hatcheries of the king-penguins by far, over remains the hatched squabs in the brood-colony and is only fed approximately every fourteen days of the parents. they lose half of its weight approximately with it. In this time, the squabs carry the second Dunenkleid, that is uniform brown.

King-penguins can come up boy in three years two, in that it early one year, the next year late and in the third year not at all puts.