AnAge entry for Aptenodytes patagonicus
Classification (HAGRID: 01667)
- 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
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 27 years (wild)
- Source
- ref. 1305
- Sample size
- Large
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
One banded individual was found to be at least 27 years old [1305].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 1,732 days
- 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)
Metabolism
- 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
References
- [1308] Myhrvold et al. (2015), An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles
- [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
- [1305] ABBBS - Australian Bird and Bat Banding Scheme
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 174450
- Animal Diversity Web
- ADW account (if available)
- Encyclopaedia of Life
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 9234
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