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King Penguins on Saunders Island (5586254113)🐧

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SpeciesSphenisciformesSpheniscidae
Birds

🐧King Penguin

Aptenodytes patagonicus J.F.Miller, 1778

Пінгві́н королі́вський (Aptenodytes patagonicus) — нелітаючий вид птахів родини пінгвінових. Це другий за розмірами вид пінгвінів після імператорського.

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
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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
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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In other languages
Königspinguin (de), кралски пингвин (bg), pingüí reial (ca), tučňák patagonský (cs), kongepingvin (da), Pingüino rey (es) … and 26 more languages
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