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King Penguins on Saunders Island (5586254113)🐧

Photo: Liam Quinn · CC BY-SA 2.0

SpeciesSphenisciformesSpheniscidae
Birds

🐧King Penguin

Aptenodytes patagonicus J.F.Miller, 1778

Le Manchot royal (Aptenodytes patagonicus) est une espèce d'oiseaux de la famille des Spheniscidae. C'est la deuxième plus grande espèce de manchots après le Manchot empereur, avec lequel il forme le genre Aptenodytes.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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≈ 1/5th of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2020.

Population trendIncreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
12 kg
Body length
0.95 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
27 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the King Penguin

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

Body mass
12 kgrecord 13 kg · SeaLifeBase
AVONET
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Record: largest individual on record

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

By sex

  • Female12 kgWikidataQ182209
  • Male13 kgWikidataQ182209

Figures vary

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

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

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

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

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

Maximum lifespan
27 years
AnAge
Details ↓

data quality: acceptable

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

Trophic level
Carnivore
AVONET
Details ↓

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
12 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 King 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. ›genusAptenodytes
  7. ›speciesAptenodytes patagonicus
Full lineage
  1. classBirds · Aves
  2. orderPenguins · Sphenisciformes
  3. familySpheniscidae
  4. genusAptenodytes
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  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. genusAptenodytes
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Königspinguin (de), кралски пингвин (bg), pingüí reial (ca), tučňák patagonský (cs), kongepingvin (da), Pingüino rey (es) … and 26 more languages
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