Adopt an animal today and help protect some of our most endangered wildlife and support other vital work around our planet.
We need your help to give rangers the strength and safety they need, and to tackle poaching and demand for products like ivory. Join us and you can help stop the illegal wildlife trade and tackle other threats facing our natural world. Wild Emperor penguins are only found in Antarctica.
From birth, they spend their entire lives in and around the Antarctic ice, although very rarely vagrants have turned up off the coast of New Zealand. Emperors are the biggest of the 18 species of penguin found today, and one of the largest of all birds. They are approximately cm tall about the height of a six year old child and weigh in at around 40 kg, though their weight does fluctuate dramatically throughout the year. Fossils recovered from the Antarctic Peninsula reveal that a colossus species of penguin which lived about 37 million years ago may have stood 2m tall and weighed as much as kg.
There are approximately , adult Emperor penguins in Antarctica. But due to a lack of research, there is still so much we don't know about these magnificent polar creatures. That's why we're funding research in the Antarctic, because the more we know, the better we can protect them.
This will encourage the formation of Marine Protected Areas and will help in protecting the species in the face of climate change. Emperor penguin colonies have been discovered and counted from space. A survey led by British scientists in used satellite technology to identify emperor colonies from the poo stains left on the ice at breeding sites.
They discovered a number of previously unvisited colonies and counted every individual penguin. In there are now thought to be around 54 Emperor colonies in the Antarctic. Another extinct penguin used to hold the height record, at around 1. Larger penguins can dive deeper and stay underwater longer than smaller ones.
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