The Detroit Zoo's newest penguin is Atticus, a king penguin that hatched last August. He already weighs more than both of his parents at 35.42 pounds.

Atticus remains behind the scenes at the Polk Penguin Conservation Center at the Detroit Zoo in Royal Oak. And even though he continues to grow, at 35 and a half pounds, Atticus actually now outweighs ...

The Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium, located in Victoria, Australia, has welcomed its latest arrival, a king penguin chick named Pesto, footage released by the aquarium on March 28 showed.

The Detroit Zoo's newest penguin is Atticus, a king chick who hatched last August. At 35.42 pounds, he weighs more than both ...

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For many years the number of newly born KING penguin chicks hovered around 190-200 and never appeared to increase. For the past three years this figure has risen impressively to 500 newly born ...

The main offenders are petrels and skuas, avian predators partial to eggs and chicks. Researchers figure that a king penguin parent devotes four hours and 2,000 pecks a day to fighting off ...

At 10-months old he tipped the scales at 24.8 kilograms — more than his parents combined — and making him the biggest king penguin chick the aquarium had ever had. The brown ball of fluff ...

As the chicks are reared, both parents see to their ... It is thought that the Falklands king penguin population expansion may be due to overcrowding further south on the islands of South Georgia.

Two critically endangered penguin chicks that were born in a zoo have been "thriving", keepers said. The black-footed penguins, named Pudding and Humbug, were born at Banham Zoo, Norfolk ...