🐧King Penguin
Pingwin królewski (Aptenodytes patagonicus) – gatunek dużego nielotnego ptaka wodnego z rodziny pingwinów (Spheniscidae), zamieszkujący chłodne oceany półkuli południowej. Gnieździ się na obrzeżach Antarktydy, Ziemi Ognistej, Falklandach i innych wyspach tej części świata. Jeden z najbardziej znanych gatunków pingwinów, zaraz po pingwinie cesarskim.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2020.
- 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
Everything we know about the King Penguin
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass12 kgrecord 13 kg · SeaLifeBaseAVONETOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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 length0.95 mmaximum recorded, total lengthSeaLifeBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: SeaLifeBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0
Tail length0.06 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0
Wing length0.17 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0
Beak length0.11 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Tarsus length0.05 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan27 yearsAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Trophic levelCarnivoreAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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HabitatMarineAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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LifestyleAquaticAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l12 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
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.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classAves
- ›orderSphenisciformes
- ›familySpheniscidae
- ›genusAptenodytes
- ›speciesAptenodytes patagonicus
- classBirds · Aves
- orderPenguins · Sphenisciformes
- familySpheniscidae
- genusAptenodytes
All 12 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- classBirds · Aves
- orderPenguins · Sphenisciformes
- familySpheniscidae
- genusAptenodytes
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