This story appears in the September 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. First comes the Noise, the turbulent din of king penguins calling, fighting, courting, like the ultimate schoolyard ...

A piece from the American Institute of Physics points out that Gentoo penguins are the fastest swimming birds in the ... Chinese Academy of Sciences, and King Mongkut‘s Institute of Technology ...

The King Penguin chick hatched at the Detroit ... the conservation center also has a window that allows visitors to see ...

He is thought to be the oldest king penguin in the world at 40 years of age ... "You can see Seth in part of the film swimming around on a rocket launcher on his back." Mr Cox described Seth as a very ...

Dr Halsey and co-workers measured the heart rate and energy expenditure of king penguins whilst walking on a treadmill and whilst swimming in a long water channel, and obtained relationships ...

Complete melanism like this has been seen before in their close relatives, king penguins, but it is extremely ... to be a distinct disadvantage when swimming, as from below, this melanistic ...

Most of the penguins will feed krill, squid, fish, and some forms of sea life creatures that are caught while swimming under the ... s seventeen species – King, Gentoo, Rockhopper, Magellanic ...