AnAge entry for Aptenodytes patagonicus
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves (Taxon entry)
Order: Sphenisciformes
Family: Spheniscidae
Genus: Aptenodytes
- Species
- Aptenodytes patagonicus
- Common name
- King penguin
- Maximum longevity
- 26 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 575
- Sample size
- Large
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
- No observations are presently available
- Female sexual maturity
- Male sexual maturity
- Incubation
- Clutch size
- (oviparous)
- Clutches per year
- Weight at hatching
- Adult weight
- 13,037 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- 0.124 days-1 (from logistic function)
- Typical body temperature
- Not yet available
- Basal metabolic rate
- 25.8890 W
- Body mass
- 13270.0 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.001951 W/g
- [0732] Starck and Ricklefs (1998), Avian growth rate data set
- [0510] Reynolds and Lee (1996), Phylogenetic analysis of avian energetics: passerines and non-passerines do not differ
- [0993] Gailey-Phipps (1978), A world survey of penguins in captivity
- [0575] Flower (1938), Furter notes on the duration of life in animals. IV. Birds
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- ITIS 174450
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