The main offenders are petrels and skuas, avian predators partial to eggs and chicks. Researchers figure that a king penguin parent devotes four hours and 2,000 pecks a day to fighting off ...

Complete melanism like this has been seen before in their close relatives, king penguins, but it is extremely ... individual would be more visible to predators, such as killer whales or leopard ...

Leopard seals have a ferocious reputation as one of the top predators in the Antarctic ... alongside one another dining together on a king penguin carcass, taking it in turns to tear off pieces ...

Featured on the first coin appropriately, is the King Penguin which is the second ... as well protecting their offspring from predators and other penguins who can sometimes try to steal eggs ...