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00 1986 Eselspinguin Aitcho Islands🐧

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SpeciesSphenisciformesSpheniscidae
Birds

🐧Gentoo Penguin

Pygoscelis papua (J.R.Forster, 1781)

En æselpingvin (Pygoscelis papua) er en pingvin, der hovedsageligt yngler på de subantarktiske øer. Den har navnet efter sin stemme, der lyder som et æsels skryden. Æselpingvinen er en af 18 pingvinarter.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Measurements
12
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≈ 1/10th of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2020.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
5.93 kg
Body length
0.81 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
41 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Gentoo Penguin

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
5.93 kgrecord 6.12 kg · SeaLifeBase
AVONET
Other figures ↓

Record: largest individual on record

Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 5.95 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length
0.81 mmaximum recorded, total length
SeaLifeBase
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Source: SeaLifeBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

Tail length
0.12 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Wing length
0.13 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Beak length
0.06 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Tarsus length
0.03 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
41 years
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Litter size
about 2
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Trophic level
Carnivore
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Habitat
Marine
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Lifestyle
Aquatic
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
5.9 Laverage
Details ↓

Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Gentoo Penguin yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderSphenisciformes
  5. ›familySpheniscidae
  6. ›genusPygoscelis
  7. ›speciesPygoscelis papua
Full lineage
  1. classBirds · Aves
  2. orderPenguins · Sphenisciformes
  3. familySpheniscidae
  4. genusPygoscelis
All 12 branches ↓
  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. orderPenguins · Sphenisciformes
  11. familySpheniscidae
  12. genusPygoscelis
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In other languages
pingüí papua (ca), tučňák oslí (cs), æselpingvin (da), Eselspinguin (de), Pygoscelis papua (es), valkokulmapingviini (fi) … and 26 more languages
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