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Bookmark or Share- African Penguin - Facts, Diet, Habitat & Pictures on Animalia.bioThe African penguin (Spheniscus demersus) is a species of penguin that lives in southern African waters. Like all extant penguins, it is flightless and adapted for a marine habitat. Once extremely numerous, the African penguin is declining rapidly due to a combination of several threats and is classified as endangered.
- African Penguin | San Diego Zoo Animals & PlantsAfrican penguins have a distinct, sharply pointed beak and black feet. The African penguin is one of the smallest penguin species. Males are generally slightly larger than their female counterparts. African penguins are also widely known as "jackass" penguins, for their donkey-like bray.
- African Penguins | Penguins InternationalThe African Penguin is a member of the banded group of penguins. They are also known as the Black-footed Penguin. Common Name: African Penguin; Black-footed Penguin; Jackass Penguin. Scientific name: Spheniscus demersus. Population: 15,000 breeding pairs. Weight and heights: 3.0 kg – 3.3 kg, 60 cm. Lifespan: 20 years.
- African Penguin - Facts, Diet & Habitat Information - Animal CornerAfrican penguins stand about 27 inches (60 centimetres tall) and weigh from 7 to 11 pounds. (2.5 to 4 kilograms). African penguins live and breed on the coast of South Africa and on the off shore islands. During the 17th and 18th century the African penguin was killed for food and oil.
- African penguin - SANBIThe African penguin is the only penguin species that occurs off the coast of Africa, and it is endemic to the coast of southern Africa, from Hollams Bird Island, near the central Namibian coast, to Algoa Bay off the coast of the Eastern Cape, South Africa.
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