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Magellanic penguin on Argentina's coast Skeleton of a Magellanic penguin. Magellanic penguins are medium-sized penguins which grow to be 61–76 cm (24–30 in) tall and weigh between 2.7 and 6.5 kg (6.0 and 14.3 lb). [3] The males are larger than the females, and the weight of both drops while the parents raise their young.
Penguins at Punta Tombo, Chubut. A pair of Magellanic penguins protecting their nesting burrow Guanaco with penguins. Punta Tombo is a peninsula into the Atlantic Ocean 110 km (68 mi) south of Trelew in Chubut Province, Argentina, where there is a large colony of Magellanic penguins - the largest such colony in Argentina.
Moreno, Francisco & Mercerat, A. (1891): Catálogo de los pájaros fósiles de la República Argentina conservados en el Museo de La Plata. Anales del Museo de La Plata 1: 7-71, 21 plates. Simpson, George Gaylord (1972): Conspectus of Patagonian fossil penguins. American Museum Novitates 2488: 1-37. PDF fulltext
Palaeospheniscus patagonicus is the type species of the penguin genus Palaeospheniscus, which is known from fossils. It stood about 65 to 75 centimetres (26 to 30 in) high in life, roughly the size of an African penguin.
Palaeospheniscus bergi is a species of the extinct penguin genus Palaeospheniscus. [1] It stood about 60 to 75 centimetres (24 to 30 in) high in life, or somewhat smaller on average than the extant African penguin.
The emperor penguin is the heaviest and largest of the penguin species and is listed on the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources’s Red List as near threatened.
“The emperor penguin is the largest penguin species on Earth.” The emperor penguin is the largest species of penguin in the world and also one of the most unique. Instead of breeding in the ...
This is a list of the native mammal species recorded in Argentina. As of January 2020, the list contains 402 mammal species from Argentina , of which one is extinct, seven are critically endangered, seventeen are endangered, sixteen are vulnerable, and thirty are near threatened.