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King penguin

Index King penguin

The king penguin (Aptenodytes patagonicus) is a large species of penguin, second only to the emperor penguin in size. [1]

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Altricial

In biology, altricial species are those in which the young are incapable of moving around on their own soon after hatching or being born.

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Andrey Kurkov

Andrey Yuryevich Kurkov (Андрій Юрійович Курков; Андре́й Ю́рьевич Курко́в; born 23 April 1961 in Leningrad, USSR) is a Ukrainian novelist and an independent thinker who writes in Russian.

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Animal Planet

Animal Planet is an American pay television channel owned by Discovery Inc. Originally focused on more educationally-based television shows, the network has featured more reality programming since 2008.

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Antarctic fur seal

The Antarctic fur seal, sometimes called the Kerguelen fur seal (Arctocephalus gazella), is one of eight seals in the genus Arctocephalus, and one of nine fur seals in the subfamily Arctocephalinae.

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Antarctica

Antarctica is Earth's southernmost continent.

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Antwerp Zoo

Antwerp Zoo (ZOO Antwerpen) is a zoo in the centre of Antwerp, Belgium, located next to the Antwerpen-Centraal railway station.

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Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's oceans with a total area of about.

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Batman Returns

Batman Returns is a 1992 American superhero film directed by Tim Burton, based on the DC Comics character Batman.

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Berlin Zoological Garden

The Berlin Zoological Garden (Zoologischer Garten Berlin) is the oldest and best-known zoo in Germany.

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Bird egg

Bird eggs are laid by the females and incubated for a time that varies according to the species; a single young hatches from each egg.

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Calgary Zoo

The Calgary Zoo is located in Bridgeland, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, just east of the city's downtown and adjacent to the Inglewood and East Village neighborhoods.

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Crèche (zoology)

The crèche (from French) in zoology refers to care of another's offspring, for instance in a colony.

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Crozet Islands

The Crozet Islands (Îles Crozet; or, officially, Archipel Crozet) are a sub-antarctic archipelago of small islands in the southern Indian Ocean.

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Crustacean

Crustaceans (Crustacea) form a large, diverse arthropod taxon which includes such familiar animals as crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimp, krill, woodlice, and barnacles.

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Detroit Zoo

The Detroit Zoo is located about north of the Detroit city limits at the intersection of Woodward Avenue, 10 Mile Road, and Interstate 696 in Royal Oak and Huntington Woods, Michigan, United States.

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Diergaarde Blijdorp

italic (Blijdorp Zoo), also named Rotterdam Zoo, is a zoo in the northwestern part of Rotterdam, one of the oldest zoos in the Netherlands.

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Edinburgh Zoo

Edinburgh Zoo, formerly the Scottish National Zoological Park, is an non-profit zoological park in Corstorphine, a suburb of Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland.

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Egg

An egg is the organic vessel containing the zygote in which an animal embryo develops until it can survive on its own; at which point the animal hatches.

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Emperor penguin

The emperor penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri) is the tallest and heaviest of all living penguin species and is endemic to Antarctica.

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Falkland Islands

The Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) is an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean on the Patagonian Shelf.

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Finnmark

Finnmark (italic; Finnmark; Фи́ннмарк, Fínnmark) is a county ("fylke") in the extreme northeastern part of Norway.

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Fish

Fish are gill-bearing aquatic craniate animals that lack limbs with digits.

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Flagship species

In conservation biology, a flagship species is a species chosen to raise support for biodiversity conservation in a given place or social context.

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Fortuna Bay

Fortuna Bay is a bay long and wide, entered between Cape Best and Robertson Point, near Atherton Peak on the north coast of South Georgia.

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Gempylidae

The Gempylidae are a family of perciform fishes, commonly known as snake mackerels or escolars.

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Giant petrel

Giant petrels form a genus, Macronectes, from the family Procellariidae, which consists of two species.

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Gjesvær

Gjesvær (Geaissvearra) is an old fishing village in Nordkapp Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway.

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Gonatus antarcticus

Gonatus antarcticus is a squid in the family Gonatidae.

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Gram

The gram (alternative spelling: gramme; SI unit symbol: g) (Latin gramma, from Greek γράμμα, grámma) is a metric system unit of mass.

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Hans Majestet Kongens Garde

Hans Majestet Kongens Garde (HMKG) (lit., His Majesty The King's Guard; the Royal Guards) is a battalion of the Norwegian Army.

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Heard Island and McDonald Islands

The Territory of Heard Island and McDonald IslandsCIA World Factbook. Accessed 4 January 2009.

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Hooked squid

The hooked squid, family Onychoteuthidae, currently comprise approximately 20–25 species (several known from only single life stages and thus unconfirmed), in six or seven genera.

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Indianapolis Zoo

The Indianapolis Zoo is located in White River State Park, in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States.

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John Frederick Miller

John Frederick Miller (1759–1796) was an English illustrator, mainly of botanical subjects.

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Kansas City Zoo

Kansas City Zoo is a zoo founded in 1909.

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Kelp gull

The kelp gull (Larus dominicanus), also known as the Dominican gull, is a gull which breeds on coasts and islands through much of the southern hemisphere.

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Kerguelen Islands

The Kerguelen Islands (or; in French commonly Îles Kerguelen but officially Archipel des Kerguelen), also known as the Desolation Islands (Îles de la Désolation in French), are a group of islands in the southern Indian Ocean constituting one of the two exposed parts of the mostly submerged Kerguelen Plateau.

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Killer whale

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Kondakovia longimana

Kondakovia longimana, also known as the giant warty squid or longarm octopus squid,O'Shea, S. 2005.

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Krefftichthys anderssoni

Krefftichthys anderssoni is a species of lanternfish found circumglobally in the southern oceans.

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Krill

Krill are small crustaceans of the order Euphausiacea, and are found in all the world's oceans.

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Lanternfish

Lanternfishes (or myctophids, from the Greek μυκτήρ myktḗr, "nose" and ophis, "serpent") are small mesopelagic fish of the large family Myctophidae.

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Leopard seal

The leopard seal (Hydrurga leptonyx), also referred to as the sea leopard, is the second largest species of seal in the Antarctic (after the southern elephant seal).

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List of Antarctic and subantarctic islands

This is a list of Antarctic and subantarctic islands.

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Lofoten

Lofoten is an archipelago and a traditional district in the county of Nordland, Norway.

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Loro Parque

Loro Parque (Spanish for "parrot park") or 'Loro Park' is a zoo on the outskirts of Crossport or Puerto de la Cruz on Tenerife, Spain where it houses an extensive and diverse reserve of animal and plant species.

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Mackerel icefish

The mackerel icefish, Champsocephalus gunnari, is a fish found only in the Southern Ocean.

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Macquarie Island

Macquarie Island, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, lies in the southwest Pacific Ocean, about halfway between New Zealand and Antarctica, at 54° 30' S, 158° 57' E.

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Mar del Plata Museum of the Sea

The Museum of the Sea was a museum of marine biology and aquarium in the seaside city of Mar del Plata, Argentina.

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Martialia hyadesii

Martialia hyadesii is a species of squid commonly known as the sevenstar flying squid.

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Monogamy

Monogamy is a form of relationship in which an individual has only one partner during their lifetime — alternately, only one partner at any one time (serial monogamy) — as compared to non-monogamy (e.g., polygamy or polyamory).

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Newport Aquarium

The Newport Aquarium is an aquarium located in Newport, Kentucky, United States at Newport on the Levee.

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Newport, Kentucky

Newport is a home rule-class city at the confluence of the Ohio and Licking rivers in Campbell County, Kentucky, in the United States.

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Nils Olav

Brigadier Sir Nils Olav is a king penguin who resides in Edinburgh Zoo, Scotland.

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Odense Zoo

Odense Zoo is a zoological garden in Odense, Denmark.

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Onychoteuthis

Onychoteuthis is a genus of squid in the family Onychoteuthidae.

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Penguin

Penguins (order Sphenisciformes, family Spheniscidae) are a group of aquatic, flightless birds.

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Predation

Predation is a biological interaction where a predator (a hunting animal) kills and eats its prey (the organism that is attacked).

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Prince Edward Islands

The Prince Edward Islands are two small islands in the sub-antarctic Indian Ocean that are part of South Africa.

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Røst

Røst is a municipality in Nordland county, Norway.

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Saint Louis Zoo

The Saint Louis Zoological Park, commonly known as the Saint Louis Zoo, is in Forest Park in St. Louis, Missouri.

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Salisbury Plain, South Georgia

Salisbury Plain is a broad coastal plain found with the Bay of Isles on the north coast of South Georgia.

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Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium

Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium is a Southern Ocean and Antarctic aquarium in central Melbourne, Australia.

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SeaWorld Orlando

SeaWorld Orlando is a theme park and marine zoological park, located in Orlando, Florida.

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SeaWorld San Diego

SeaWorld San Diego is an animal theme park, oceanarium, outside aquarium, and marine mammal park, located in San Diego, California, United States, inside the city's Mission Bay Park.

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Seoul

Seoul (like soul; 서울), officially the Seoul Special Metropolitan City – is the capital, Constitutional Court of Korea and largest metropolis of South Korea.

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Ski Dubai

Ski Dubai is an indoor ski resort with 22,500 square meters of indoor ski area.

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Skua

The skuas are a group of seabirds with about seven species forming the family Stercorariidae and the genus Stercorarius.

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Snowy sheathbill

The snowy sheathbill (Chionis albus), also known as the greater sheathbill, pale-faced sheathbill, and paddy, is one of two species of sheathbill.

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South Georgia Island

South Georgia is an island in the southern Atlantic Ocean that is part of the British Overseas territory of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.

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Southern Ocean

The Southern Ocean, also known as the Antarctic Ocean or the Austral Ocean, comprises the southernmost waters of the World Ocean, generally taken to be south of 60° S latitude and encircling Antarctica.

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Squid

Squid are cephalopods of the two orders Myopsida and Oegopsida, which were formerly regarded as two suborders of the order Teuthida, however recent research shows Teuthida to be paraphyletic.

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St Andrews Bay, South Georgia

Saint Andrews Bay is a bight 2 miles (3.2 km) wide, indenting the north coast of South Georgia immediately south of Mount Skittle.

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The Pondus Penguin

The Pondus Penguin refers to a character in a Danish children's book, Pondus the Penguin, written and illustrated by Ivar Myrhøj in 1966.

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Tierra del Fuego

Tierra del Fuego (Spanish for "Land of Fire") is an archipelago off the southernmost tip of the South American mainland, across the Strait of Magellan.

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United Arab Emirates

The United Arab Emirates (UAE; دولة الإمارات العربية المتحدة), sometimes simply called the Emirates (الإمارات), is a federal absolute monarchy sovereign state in Western Asia at the southeast end of the Arabian Peninsula on the Persian Gulf, bordering Oman to the east and Saudi Arabia to the south, as well as sharing maritime borders with Qatar to the west and Iran to the north.

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Vagrancy (biology)

Vagrancy is a phenomenon in biology whereby individual animals appear well outside their normal range; individual animals which exhibit vagrancy are known as vagrants.

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Zürich Zoologischer Garten

The Zürich Zoologischer Garten (Zürich Zoological Garden) is a zoo located in Zürich, Switzerland.

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63 Seaworld

63 Seaworld is an aquarium that opened in 1985 in the 63 Building, Yeouido, Seoul, South Korea.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_penguin

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