A 10-year-old King Penguin in Birdland Park and Garden was renamed from Maggie into Magnus after a feather DNA Test revealed that the penguin is a male. The penguin was subjected to a feather DNA ...

is actually a male. After receiving DNA sexing results, the penguin has been officially renamed Magnus, who is part of England’s only breeding colony of king penguins. Magnus, a 10-year-old ...

King penguins do not build nests. In their constricted space, the male and female take turns incubating a single egg balanced on their feet and covered by a loose fold of skin. They brood the ...

Suspicions grew after "Maggie's" unexpected behaviour with a fellow male king penguin. When Flop's mother died and she lost the strength to stand, Dudley Zoo taught her to walk. The naturalist and ...

So to identify an individual, or even a male from a female ... like this has been seen before in their close relatives, king penguins, but it is extremely rare in an emperor penguin.

King penguins in the Falklands only bread twice ... and they start to hatch from the end of December until March. Both male and female take turns sitting on the egg or looking after the chicks.

As the Falkland Islands are a mere 750 miles of the nearest point of Antarctica, it is here where many penguin species make their home. Featured on the first coin appropriately, is the King ...