What specie of penguin is this??

Question

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=King+Penguin&gbv=2

i'm talking about the first picture, is it an emperor or a king penguin?

Answer 1

It is the King penguin, they differs just look:

http://portalwiedzy.onet.pl/80741,1,,,pi...

the A) is emperor, B) King

Answer 2

it says king. if you left click on the picture to open it, you can see the label at the end of the url.

http://www.rareware.com/extras/scribes/9...

also, the flash of orange on the lower half of beak is big and bright, it looks smaller or not there on the pics of emperors.

Answer 3

It should be an Emperor penguin. They have yellow feather at the chest area and are that fat too xD

Answer 4

emperor  penguin

Answer 5

Good question.

I'm not sure what the distinguishing characteristics are and the 2 species are very similar.  If I had to guess, I'd say that it was a King Penguin because it looks more "svelte" than Emperor Penguins tend to be.  <shrug>

Edited to add:

SC, Thanks for pointing out that easy distinguishing characteristic.  Now I know what to look for.  :-)

Answer 6

It is a king. The easy way to tell the difference between the king and the emperor is to look at the orange spot on their face. The emperor's connects to the white area on their belly http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Emper...

http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/Anima...

The king's orange spot is totally pinched off by the black and does not connect to the white on their belly

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Manch...