Despite his fish diet, his feathers smell like corn chips ... and his appetite will reduce a lot,’ Thornton said. King penguins are found in Antarctica and their population remains fairly ...

weighing more than his parents combined and maintaining a steady diet of 25 to 32 fish a day. King penguins are primarily endemic to the subantarctic islands, the southernmost tip of Argentinian ...

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 ...

Once hunted to the brink of extinction, the thousands of king penguins that densely congregate on the remote Possession Island each year now face a new threat: climate change. The birds spend most ...

Scientists are trying out an alternative bio-indicator – the king penguin – to investigate whether they can be used to monitor the effects of climate change. We are used to hearing about the ...