The scientific name of the emperer penguin is Aptenodytes forsteri where Aptenodytes

refers to the genus and forsteri to the man who discovered it in 1944 the german
naturalist Johann Reinhold Forster. It is an endemic species of the Antarctic continent
where they are only two types of penguins, it is the only species that does not emigrate
from his territory.
As physical description, we can mention that he is black on his head and wings, the
abdomen is white; his beak is long, pointed and curved to the extream; the feet are grey
until half-way up then they become golden around the neck.

The male has a ruffle in his abdomen between his short feet that serves as a bag to
incubate the eggs and help with growth of the babies. The babies are covered in grey
feathers and more and opeige fluffy than the adults. This is the first stage in the first
days.

The emperer penguin is a bird that don’t fly because it has modified the wings that are
long but his bones are denser,than other birds to reduce the flotability and power to dive
easity, they are spectacular swimmers because their bodies are hydrodynamic with
strong swings of his wings. They can also jump from the water and sometimes they race
great distances altering between swimming and jumping aduancing at velocities of 6 to
9 kilometers per hour and profound 130 to 200 meters that it can submerge for 20
minutes looking to capture to his prey such as small fish, crustacean, shrimp and kril,
they are myopic having the sight adapted for the submarine vision. Inside all the
penguins the emperor is the highest species with 1,20 meters of height and the heaviest
coming easily to 40 kilograms.

A very interesting characteristic of these penguins is that they are monogamous and
possess an incredible physical resistance in the period of reproduction, here is where
they go out of the sea and cross approximately 90 kilometers of land to come to the site
of matching where it begins the courtship exhibiting his beautiful feathers. This is
visible in the middle of March when the temperature rises to 40 degrees below zero,
then in May or June the female will put an egg of approximately 450 grams, this one is
penetrated carefully to the macho to his abdominal bag that is incubated by a period
from 62 to 64 days avoiding the contact with the cold ice what might be fatal for the
embryo. While the male stays at the expense of the incubation the female travels to the
sea to feed and recover his lost weight, if during the absence of the female the nestling
is born the macho will feed it with a milky secretion from a gland of the esophagus.

The males form compact groups in which turnan of the interior on the outside of the
formation and vice versa. This way they survive the cold and the strong winds of up to
200 kilometres per hour.

The female returns after two months, where it begins to look for his pair recognizing the
sounds expressed by this one which can be listened even to 1 kilometre of distance, at
this moment the female stays at the expense of the nestling where it feeds it across the
regurgitación, is the shift of the macho to food travel to the sea to feed and be brought,
if this cycle is interrupted in some point due to the death of a progenitor the baby dies
without remedy, in case one of the progenitors from the nestling desists the death of the
baby will be inevitable. If the female loses to his shoot in a desperate attempt it will try
to steal one from another female.
To the return of the father who is late about 2 weeks, the nestling is more independent
and vulnerable to the assaults of greedy birds that circulate such as the giant petrels, for
which the adults are brightened for supporting them in groups and they to teach to swim
more rapidly, in December, already they will be big and will begin the trip towards the
sea.

The nesting is brought about during this time so hard, when the babies grow and they
become free about the summer, could capture the food in easier form, since it is more
abundant and the less rigorous enough time.

After 5 years of life the nestling is fertile and can initiate his period of reproduction,
normally more than 20 years live, though there is witness of which they have given
themselves cases to come at the age of 40.