Adélie Penguin

Adélie Penguin
アデリーペンギン
Character Data
AKA		Adelie Penguin
Romaji		Aderī Pengin
Debut		Not Featured Yet
Animal Data
Scientific Name		Pygoscelis adeliae
Distribution		Antarctica
Diet		Piscivore
Avg. Lifespan		11 to 20 years
Read More		Adélie penguin
Conservation

Adélie Penguin

Pavilion

KF3

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The Adélie Penguin is a type of penguin Friend that premiered in the fourth official Kemono Friends guidebook. It has yet to appear in any other official media.

Appearance

Adélie Penguin has jet-black hair styled in a bobcut. The back ends of her hair are orange in coloration; in conjunct with her wireless white-and-black headphones they resemble the unmistakable profile of the real flightless bird. A black tail protrudes from her lower back. The shade of her bangs covers her striking red eyes.

She is dressed in a simple, two-toned turtleneck dress with a design reflective of the Adélie's plumage. Her dress includes sleeves which double as mittens, like other penguin Friends, as well small pockets on either side of her stomach. She wears pink sneakers with loose-fitting socks.

Series Appearances

Appearances In Kemono Friends Media

Media		Role

In Real Life

An adult Adélie penguin. Note the signature white rings around its eyes.

The Adélie is a species of penguin which lives along the entire Antarctic coast, making it one of the most southerly distributed of all animals, a testament to the bird's ability to thrive in a harsh and frigid climate. It shares its genus with the gentoo penguin and chinstrap penguin. It is a mid-sized penguin with a two-tone appearance often compared to a tuxedo. Its most distinctive feature is likely its pair of beady, dark eyes, starkly contrasted by the white rings which surround them.

Adélie penguins live in colonies which vary greatly in size, with some reported to number in the quarter million range, where they congregate for breeding season every year. As a "safety net" to prepare for eggs being stolen by predators like skua, two eggs are laid at a time. Their chicks, gray and downy in appearance, moult into their juvenile plumage about two months after birth, and are thenceforth able to go out to sea.

They are known to migrate long distances around the Antartic Circle, at times exceeding 10,000 miles in a single trek. Similar to other penguins, they have a seafaring diet that heavily features krill. Adélies are subject to predation by leopard seals, skuas, and occasionally killer whales.

Explorers and scientists who have observed the penguins have taken note of their curious, brave and often recklessly obstinate character. Unlike their cousins the gentoos, they do not fear humans or even dogs brought by explorers, approaching them without the slightest hint of intimidation, sometimes at the expense of their own lives. In the words of Aplsey Cherry-Garrard, "They are extraordinarily like children, these little people of the Antarctic world, either like children or like old men, full of their own importance."

Trivia

• Adélie Penguin is named after Adélie Land, a territory of Antarctica claimed by France, which the bird is often known to migrate to. Adélie Land itself is named after Adèle Dumont D'Urville, wife of explorer Jules Dumont D'Urville, who discovered the penguins in 1840. "Adélie" was her nickname.