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In the English language, many animals have different names depending on whether they are male, female, young, domesticated, or in groups. The best-known source of many English words used for collective groupings of animals is The Book of Saint Albans , an essay on hunting published in 1486 and attributed to Juliana Berners . [ 1 ]
In SuperTux and SuperTuxKart, there is a different female penguin called "Penny" who is purple and white (SuperTuxKart once had Gown and still has a map called "Gown's Bow"). In the arcade game Tux 2 there is a female penguin called "Trixi", and in FreeCiv the female leader name for the Antarctican civilization is "Tuxette". [citation needed]
Common name Scientific name and subspecies Range IUCN status and estimated population Adélie penguin. P. adeliae (Hombron and Jacquinot, 1841) Antarctica and surrounding islands LC 1,084,320–1,228,320 breeding pairs [9] Chinstrap penguin. P. antarcticus (Forster, J. R., 1781) Antarctic Peninsula and Balleny Islands LC 8,000,000 [10] Gentoo ...
The name penguin was first used in the late 16th century for the Great Auk (pictured here) and was later applied to Southern Hemisphere birds due to their resemblance, though they are unrelated. [10] The word penguin first appears in literature at the end of the 16th century as a synonym for the great auk. [11]
King penguin egg. The female penguin lays one pyriform (pear-shaped) white egg weighing 300 g (⅔ lb). [44] It is initially soft but hardens and darkens to a pale greenish colour. It measures around 10 cm × 7 cm (3.9 in × 2.8 in). [44] The egg is incubated for around 55 days with both birds sharing incubation in shifts of 6–18 days each.
The emperor penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri) is the tallest and heaviest of all living penguin species and is endemic to Antarctica. The male and female are similar in plumage and size, reaching 100 cm (39 in) in length and weighing from 22 to 45 kg (49 to 99 lb). Feathers of the head and back are black and sharply delineated from the white belly ...
The group is led by Ramón and the names of the other penguins are Nestor, Raul, Lombardo, and Rinaldo. Badtz-Maru: Sanrio: Esmeralda Mawaru Penguin Drum: Penguin 1 Penguin 2 Penguin 3 Chilly Willy: Chilly Willy: A penguin who does not enjoy being cold, from the classic Walter Lantz cartoons. In addition to his animated cartoons, also had his ...
The genus name is most likely from conepatl, the Nahuatl name of the animal, ultimately meaning "burrower". The species name is possibly from Mapudungun chingue ("skunk") or Spanish chinga ("pug-nosed") [70] Coontie palm (Zamia integrifolia) cycad: Muscogee / Creek: From conti hateka ("white root"). [71] Cougar (puma concolor) big cat: Quechua ...