king penguin

Biologists Stunned at Unusual Yellowish-Gold King Penguin

Medicine & Technology Feb 23, 2021

An unusual and rare yellowish-gold king penguin was photographed on the shores of South Georgia island that stunned biologists. Its color aberration leads biologists to debate whether it has lost all or only some of its melanin pigment.

Why Researchers Have to Go In Disguise—The Penguin in the Room

Nov 04, 2014

Looking for a way to observe king penguin colonies in the ice fields of Antarctica, researchers led by Yvon Le Maho from the University of Strasbourg, France developed a fluffy little rover shaped in the image of a penguin chick so that they could get an up-close view of the male penguins’ nesting behaviors.