King Penguin lives on the ocean peninsulas and islands.Their population is settled in the boundaries between the Tierra de Fuego on.Crosets, the Falkland Islands, and the territories, which runs to the south-west of New Zealand and the south-east of Australia.Nesting penguins in Antarctica, in the northern territories.Feed the animals in the ice-free, clean water, offshore and along the rocky coastline.Juveniles removed to a distance of hundreds of kilometers from the nearest colonies are found in the open ocean.The population has more than a million pairs.
There are different kinds of penguins.Among all emit only the two largest.These include the Imperial and Royal penguin.Second several smaller.
body length king penguin - from 94 centimeters to 1.36 meters.Its mass can be up to sixteen kilograms.Royal Penguin has a bright color, rather long beak.It feeds on small aquatic animals, which are pretty much off the coast of the islands, as well as plankton.Some individuals consume crustaceans, others prefer fish.
Hunt Penguins groups.Adults teach youngsters while hunting techniques and skills.Swag King Penguin is at a depth of ten to twenty meters from the ocean surface.Animals can carry at a depth of up to forty minutes.They feed them every two weeks.In between feeding the penguins lose weight by half.Animals drink both fresh and salt water.If there is no water - eat snow.
Penguins birds considered "public".They live and breed in colonies.Pets fine swim in the water and spend much of his life.At the same time they are able to pass on the land rather long distances.On occasion, the penguins are trying to slide on their bellies in the snow.The body temperature of the animals in the water is reduced quickly enough, so they become very active to keep warm.There are king penguins often in areas with cold temperate.This can be seen in the rock, snow or icy areas.They can be found in such places with the proviso that close enough feed.
reached puberty, penguins often become aggressive and fighting.Usually, disputes arise from the territory, which currently defines a pair for breeding.
Before the start of mating, the male, making trumpets, looms poses.Thus, it scares opponents.
reproduction is carried out in the summer.Egg-laying begins in December and January.King penguins do not build nests.The female lays only one egg is enough large.During incubation the female and male are close by and sing "songs".For the same "song", they find each other, if they suddenly had to leave.The duration of incubation - fifty-four days.Penguins every three years, appears on two chicks.In the first year it is close to the young mother.In the summer of the first egg is postponed for the next year to the end of the summer - the second.On the third year of leaving the egg does not occur.Early chicks to the beginning of autumn reach the size of adults.Of the eggs that are stored in the later period, often do not have time to hatch chicks - die with the arrival of cold weather.Such parents (whose babies died) begins hormonal changes.As a result, they start reproduction in November.Typically, in this case, offspring grows without loss.
king penguins are hunted for feathers, fat and eggs.It should be noted that in the 1960s the population of these animals actively exterminated by hunters.Today fishing is prohibited.
