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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Prime your camera for sightings of king penguins, seals and whales wolloping through the frigid seas, while majestic albatross soar overhead and cormorants flap across choppy waters.
  — Patricia Garip, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 June 2023
• Like other birds, king penguins can have several mutations that affect how their bodies make pigments.
  — Jeff Mauritzen, National Geographic, 25 Apr. 2019
• The king penguin is also making an unexpected comeback in Patagonia.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 29 July 2022
• About 50 penguins live in Penguin Palooza, including king penguins and macaroni, southern rockhopper, gentoo and chinstrap penguins.
  — Melissa Reinert, Cincinnati.com, 30 Apr. 2018

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024