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Macaroni Penguin

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Facts Of Macaroni Penguin 
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Sphenisciformes
Family: Spheniscidae
Genus: Eudyptes
Scientific Name: Eudyptes Chrysolophus
Type: Bird
Diet: Carnivore
Size: 60-70cm (24-28in)
Wingspan: 80-100cm (31-39in)
Weight: 3.2-6.4kg (7-14lbs)
Top Speed: 35km/h (22mph)
Lifespan: 15-20 years
Lifestyle: Colony
Conservation Status: Threatened
Colour: Black, White, Brown, Yellow
Skin Type: Feathers
Favourite Food: Fish
Habitat: Sea and ice-islands in Sub-Antarctica
Average Clutch Size: 2
Main Prey: Fish, Squid, Crustaceans
Predators: Leopard Seal, Killer Whale
Special Features: Large red beak and yellow feathers on head

The macaroni penguin is a vast estimated types of penguin found in the Sub-Antarctic districts. The macaroni penguin is one of six types of peaked penguins is so firmly identified with the imperial penguin, that a few people class the two as similar species.

The macaroni penguin invests the vast majority of its energy amid the colder winter months angling in the harsh elements seas where the macaroni penguin is more shielded from the unpleasant states of the Antarctic winter on the land. Be that as it may, when the late spring is drawing closer and temperatures at the South Pole increment, the macaroni penguin advances toward arrive with a specific end goal to breed.

The macaroni penguin is the most various types of penguin on the planet as there around 18 million macaroni penguin people. The macaroni penguin populace numbers are declined extremely in the course of recent decades implying that the macaroni penguin is today thought to be a helpless animal varieties. Macaroni penguins are one the greatest and heaviest types of penguin as grown-up macaroni penguins by and large normal around 70cm in tallness. The macaroni penguin additionally has a few extremely particular highlights including a since quite a while ago red-shaded bill and a peak of thin brilliant yellow quills on its head.

Like other penguin species, the macaroni penguin is a meat eating creature as the main wellspring of nourishment is in the encompassing water. The macaroni penguin burns through a half year amid the cool winter months chasing fish, squid, krill and scavengers which the macaroni penguin gets in its long nose. The macaroni penguin just has a few normal predators in the solidifying Antarctic Ocean as there are just various creature species that can make due there. Panther seals, executioner whales and the periodic passing shark are the main genuine predators of the macaroni penguin.

The macaroni penguin comes back to the land amid the hotter summer a very long time so as to breed. Macaroni penguins assemble in vast states which can contain up to 100,000 people keeping in mind the end goal to lay their eggs. Female macaroni penguins by and large lay two eggs several days separated that bring forth after around about a month and a half. Both the male and female macaroni penguin guardians help to brood the eggs and raise the chicks.
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