If a chick falls out of the pouch, it can freeze to death within two minutes. Emperors have 80 feathers per square inch. They grow to nearly four feet. Males can reach 85 pounds. Females are usually slightly less.
Emperors rely on sound to pick out their chicks.
When the penguin parents return, they trumpet at each creche, and their chick runs out to meet them, They feed on squid, krill and fish. Penguin chicks who reach adulthood have a good chance of living 20 years or more. Penguin chicks leave their colony for four years. They enter to ocean with not instruction from their parents on how to swim, or catch food. More than half of the penguin chicks die by starvation, freezing, or being preyed on by leopard seals.