How to Use king penguin in a Sentence
king penguin
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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
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The zoo has 24 king penguins: 13 males, nine females and the chicks.
—USA TODAY, 22 July 2019
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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
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One last glimpse Eyes ahead: Boys dressed up in school uniforms pose with king penguins at the London Zoo, 1953.
—Stephen Alvarez, National Geographic, 23 Dec. 2019
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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
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The Gentoo, chinstrap and king penguins and sea lions are speedy eaters.
—Andrea Sachs, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2019
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This is the last year to see king penguins waddle through the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden.
—Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 8 Jan. 2024
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The response to that king penguin could have taken a number of different forms.
—Washington Post, 12 Feb. 2021
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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
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The invisible cues that guide king penguin chicks home.
—Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 19 Jan. 2013
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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
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Out of another cabinet, Prum hoisted the entire body of a king penguin.
—Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 18 Jan. 2011
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Cunningham and his coauthor, Francesco Bonadonna, studied a king penguin colony in the Kerguelen Islands.
—Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 2 Oct. 2015
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Both locations began creating a plan to incubate, transport, and transfer the king penguin chick egg to its new foster parents, a 21-year-old male and a 7-year-old female named Gertie.
—Chandra Fleming, Detroit Free Press, 7 Oct. 2022
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First, belying their solitary reputation, the seals came together in groups to attack king penguins (twice the size of the gentoo penguin in the photograph) that were entering the sea from a rookery on the island.
—The Economist, 17 Aug. 2019
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Like other birds, king penguins can have several mutations that affect how their bodies make pigments.
—Jeff Mauritzen, National Geographic, 25 Apr. 2019
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The king penguin is also making an unexpected comeback in Patagonia.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 29 July 2022
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About 50 penguins live in Penguin Palooza, including king penguins and macaroni, southern rockhopper, gentoo and chinstrap penguins.
—Melissa Reinert, Cincinnati.com, 30 Apr. 2018
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