What is the Emperor a penguin?
Emperor penguin or aptenodyts Forsteri is the largest of the modern penguin species. Penguins Emperor costs about 3.7 feet (1.1 m) tall and weigh £ 49-99 (£ 22-45). In appearance, the Emperor has a penguin very dark black feathers in the area of the head, back and tail, with white belly and wings. Its account is about 3 inches (8 cm), the upper part is black and the bottom is lilac, pink or orange. Males and women have a very similar color and weight. Its habitats are limited to a continental shelf, to ice and islands that are between 66 and 78 degrees of southern width. Emperor Penguin has developed several methods to keep warm. Its first defense line is its feathers, which - per square in a square inch (15 per square cm) - have the highest density of a feather of any bird. Another is the Bubbie layer, which can be as thick as 1.2 inches (3.0 cm), and the last is a layer down, which further insulates the emperor of the penguin.
Emperor penguinsThey are without flights who spend most of their life in the ocean hunting for food. They are meat eaters whose diet is mainly fish; Cefalopods such as octopus; Or crustaceans like krill. The Emperor Penguin is able to stay underwater for 18 minutes and immerse up to 700 feet (213 m). This kind of penguin has a tongue with spines that face the back of the mouth and prevents the prey from fleeing as soon as it was caught. They are social birds and often coordinate their hunting.
This is the only kind of penguin whose period of reproduction is in Antarctica in the winter months from March to December. The reproduction period begins in March and April, when adult Emperor penguins migrate inland from the edges of the ice package. Penguins often walk about 30-75 miles (50-120 km) to get their breeding.
Penguins of the female emperor laid one egg in May or early June, and then left for feeding in the ocean, they do not return until the eggs are broken. There are no nests because the male emperor penguin incubate eggs tI keep it on his feet for about two months. After hatching the eggs, both parents rotate by turning the feeding at sea and care for the chicken.