#king penguin

[todaysbird]

HUGE fan of Pesto's new look

[spore-galore]

I made a King Penguin in spore!!

time taken: like 30 minutes or something

[gun-leg]

Happy one year to the trading cards I got to make for the Wilder Institute/Calgary Zoo's penguin walk.

[snototter]

King penguins (Aptenodytes patagonicus) congregate on South Georgia Island

by Mary Bomford

[inatungulates]

Eurasian tundra reindeer Rangifer tarandus

With Antarctic fur seal Arctocephalus gazella and king penguin Aptenodyptes patagonicus

Observed by edwardrooks, CC BY-NC

Antarctic reindeer?

Despite reindeer being one of the iconic, even quintessential, Arctic animals, the presence of penguins here doesn't lie - this photo was taken in the far south, on the remote Subantarctic island of South Georgia. Once, this island was a major whaling station, and reindeer were introduced in several phases in the early part of the 20th century as a food source for whalers stationed here, so there would be a ready supply of game that could weather the harsh conditions. Over the 20th century, the reindeer's population grew, and eventually several thousand thrived on South Georgia, very far from their native lands indeed.

This observation is also a look into a lost world - this photo could not be taken today. As the reindeer population grew, they altered the South Georgia landscape and began to compete with seals, terns, and other seagoing travelers - for whom the island is an important place to come ashore to rest or nest - for access to vegetated areas. Management authorities began a program of eradication, and by 2014, Norwegian marksmen and Sami herders had eradicated some 7,000 deer. The final few stragglers were killed off in the following years, and by 2017 these Antarctic reindeer were no more.

[qiullyvonesyndrome]

I think August would show his love like a male king penguin showing his love towards a female king penguin, “Syndrome? Not all of us know about how King Penguins express their love-” Letme explained!

So normally, when a Male King Penguin or (MKP) for short found an Female King Penguin (FKP) attractive, the male would stand still and reach their neck out because penguin actually have a neck and they just hide it in their bomb looking body, having their head looking directly at the FKP and screams “HEY, I ALLOW YOU TO LOVE ME.” In the most prideful way possible considering how confident he is. And then he would just stand there looking at you like “How was that? Super cool right? I know you will like it, accept the feelings then.”

[antiqueanimals]

George Marston (1882-1940). Polar Wildlife.Iink, watercolour and body colour on artist's board, captioned in ink.

Bonhams

[slugmorelz]

Baby King Penguin by Sean Crane