They wieght up to 30 pounds, and stands roughly 3 feet high. They are found just below the Antarctic Circle, on the little rocky islands there. They live in colonies of hundreds of thousands of birds. The breeding practices of King penguins are the same as the breeding practices of Emperors. In the early 1900s, the popultion of King Penguins was nearly exterminated on Macquarie Island by whale hunters killing them for food and boiling them for oil.
Penguins have no natural land predators.
Therefore, they are not afraid at all of people. Click here for more information.