Adelie penguin
name of animal
Scientific name
The scientific name for Adelie penguins is pygoscelis adeliae.
Special features
Hundreds of thousonds breeding pairs return to the same nesting ground called Rookery.
Meny travel up to 100 kilmetres over the ice to get to rookery.
What are the Adaptations
They have long stiff tails. They can doze off to sleep while standing up.
what do they eat
Krill is the main food that they eat.But they all so eat fish and squid.
Size of Adelie penguins
When they are folly grown they weigh 5 kilograms and, they stand 70 centimetres tall.
Predators to Adelie penguins
Adelie penguins are eaten by leopard seals.
Adelie penguin
Adelie penguin getting casts by a leopard seal.
leopard seal
Leopard seals are Adelie penguin predators.
leopard seal
This is a Adelie penguin going to be eaten by a leopard seal.
Colours
They have a blue-black head and chin, pure white stomach and white eye lids.