How to Use king penguin in a Sentence

king penguin

noun
  • Well-fed, sedentary king penguins age faster than wild ones.
    — Wyatt Williams, Harpers Magazine, 26 May 2026
  • 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 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
  • The response to that king penguin could have taken a number of different forms.
    — Washington Post, 12 Feb. 2021
  • Pesto is expected to start swimming with other king penguin chicks when the molting process is done.
    — Dan Aulbach, NBC News, 9 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • Out of another cabinet, Prum hoisted the entire body of a king penguin.
    — Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 18 Jan. 2011
  • 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
  • Like other birds, king penguins can have several mutations that affect how their bodies make pigments.
    — Jeff Mauritzen, National Geographic, 25 Apr. 2019
  • 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
  • But the king penguin, the world’s second-largest penguin species, rules South Georgia Island.
    — Jack Tamisiea, Discover Magazine, 23 Feb. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Despite these challenges, the sight of the king penguins elegantly navigating through the kelp was stunning.
    — Photovogue, Vogue, 22 Apr. 2026
  • This is the last year to see king penguins waddle through the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden.
    — Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 23 Feb. 2024
  • This is the last year to see king penguins waddle through the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden.
    — Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 23 Feb. 2024
  • 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
  • The king penguin regularly dives to depths of 650 feet on fishing expeditions.
    — Discover Magazine, 1 Aug. 2012
  • 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
  • The king penguin is also making an unexpected comeback in Patagonia.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 29 July 2022
  • For comparison, adult king penguins usually weigh between 31 and 37 pounds.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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