How to Use king penguin in a Sentence

king penguin

noun
  • One of the new chicks was a king penguin, the first hatched at the zoo in 20 years.
    Cailey Rizzo, Travel + Leisure, 25 Feb. 2022
  • The zoo has 24 king penguins: 13 males, nine females and the chicks.
    USA TODAY, 22 July 2019
  • Even at 10 months old, king penguin chicks can find their way back to a square-meter space in a huge colony from a third of a mile away.
    National Geographic, 25 Apr. 2019
  • One last glimpse Eyes ahead: Boys dressed up in school uniforms pose with king penguins at the London Zoo, 1953.
    Stephen Alvarez, National Geographic, 23 Dec. 2019
  • The average parental care for a baby king penguin can span over a year.
    Reuters, NBC News, 27 Sep. 2024
  • Finding a new ice-free home with the sandy and pebbly beaches where king penguins like to breed is not easy.
    Grace Donnelly, Fortune, 27 Feb. 2018
  • The Gentoo, chinstrap and king penguins and sea lions are speedy eaters.
    Andrea Sachs, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2019
  • Chocolate-brown and fluffy, Pesto is a 9-month-old king penguin that weighs 52 pounds, more than twice the combined weight of his parents.
    Reuters, NBC News, 27 Sep. 2024
  • But the king penguin, the world’s second-largest penguin species, rules South Georgia Island.
    Jack Tamisiea, Discover Magazine, 23 Feb. 2022
  • This is the last year to see king penguins waddle through the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden.
    Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 8 Jan. 2024
  • This is the last year to see king penguins waddle through the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden.
    Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 12 June 2024
  • The response to that king penguin could have taken a number of different forms.
    Washington Post, 12 Feb. 2021
  • Pesto is a 10-month-old king penguin and weighs about 46 pounds, according to Sea Life Melbourne’s website.
    Daniel S. Levine, People.com, 11 Oct. 2024
  • The reason the king penguins are in trouble is that as the oceans warm, their favorite food — fish — will move south to cooler waters, away from where the penguins live.
    Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 26 Feb. 2018
  • The invisible cues that guide king penguin chicks home.
    Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 19 Jan. 2013
  • One of the most iconic species of arctic birds, the king penguin, is the latest animal to land on the long list of critters threatened by climate change.
    Fernando Ramirez, Houston Chronicle, 6 Mar. 2018
  • The image really does show a male king penguin trying to make a move on a female who has already paired up with her mate.
    Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024
  • Try the twin-track bobsled experience or take some time to hang out with the resident gentoo and king penguins.
    Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 2 Oct. 2023
  • The big guy well outweighs his foster parents, who average around 11 kgs or 24 pounds, and eats about double what an adult king penguin does in a day.
    Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA TODAY, 23 Sep. 2024
  • Out of another cabinet, Prum hoisted the entire body of a king penguin.
    Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 18 Jan. 2011
  • The aquarium is announcing the birth of a new, unnamed king penguin chick in late February from mom Dumas and dad Indy.
    Emily Deletter, The Enquirer, 21 Apr. 2022
  • Zoo Berlin officials announced that two of its male king penguins, Skipper and Ping, have eagerly adopted an egg.
    Scottie Andrew, CNN, 13 Aug. 2019
  • Weighing nearly 40 pounds and standing up to three feet high, king penguins are second only to emperor penguins in size.
    National Geographic, 26 Mar. 2020
  • Pesto also has the distinct honor of being the only king penguin chick to hatch at this particular aquarium in all of 2024, after none were born last year.
    Rachel Treisman, NPR, 20 Sep. 2024
  • Both zoo organizations are happy their collaboration went well in the hatching of a healthy and well-cared-for king penguin chick.
    Chandra Fleming, Detroit Free Press, 7 Oct. 2022
  • Cunningham and his coauthor, Francesco Bonadonna, studied a king penguin colony in the Kerguelen Islands.
    Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 2 Oct. 2015
  • The king penguin regularly dives to depths of 650 feet on fishing expeditions.
    Discover Magazine, 1 Aug. 2012
  • As the aquarium explained in social media videos, a king penguin’s gender can’t be determined just by looking.
    Rachel Treisman, NPR, 20 Sep. 2024
  • Both locations began creating a plan to incubate, transport, and transfer the king penguin chick egg to its new foster parents, a 21-year-old male and a 7-year-old female named Gertie.
    Chandra Fleming, Detroit Free Press, 7 Oct. 2022
  • First, belying their solitary reputation, the seals came together in groups to attack king penguins (twice the size of the gentoo penguin in the photograph) that were entering the sea from a rookery on the island.
    The Economist, 17 Aug. 2019

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