New Zealand Giant Penguin

New Zealand Giant Penguin
ジャイアントペンギン
Character Data
AKA		Giant Penguin
Romaji		Jaianto Pengin
Debut		Kemono Friends (Anime)
Animal Data
Scientific Name		Pachydyptes ponderosus
Distribution		New Zealand
Diet		Piscivore
Avg. Lifespan		?
Read More		New Zealand giant penguin
Conservation

New Zealand Giant Penguin

Anime

Pavilion

KF3

Kingdom

Gallery

““Doesn't 'giant' mean 'big'? Do I look like a bully? Am I good at baseball? No, no! I'm ordinary! It's just that everyone selfishly became small! Isn't that right, Koutei?"
Koutei: "......””
—New Zealand Giant Penguin's introduction

New Zealand Giant Penguin is an extinct penguin Friend.

Appearance

New Zealand Giant Penguin has extremely long gray hair that extends up to her shoes. It fades into blue at the end, and in the front, it parts into a bicolored bang - a purple that fades into blue, outlined by black. She wears black headphones with red and white sections at the cap and blue LEDs - the headband has "PPP" written on it. She has thick, rounded gray eyebrows, and pink irises with no highlights, signaling her species is extinct. Like the other penguins, she wears a unique type of hoodie that continues past the sleeves and becomes a sort of glove, imitating a penguin's wings. However, unlike other PPP members, hers lack thumbs. New Zealand Giant Penguin's variation of the hoodie itself also has a different coloration, being a gray that fades into black at the sleeves and "gloves", with a white underside. The underside of the hood is black, tied by a zipper of the same color with a cyan LED on it. Just below the hood is a purple-to-blue pattern identical to the one seen on her hair. The rest of the hoodie is completely white, and it turns into a frilled skirt at the bottom. She has small white socks with light blue rings, and wears black boots.

Series Appearances

Appearances In Kemono Friends Media

Media		Role
2018	Kemono Friends Pavilion	↪ Observable character
2019	Kemono Friends 3	↪ Minor character, playable character
2019	Kemono Friends 3: Planet Tours	↪ Playable character

In Real Life

A restoration model of New Zealand giant penguin in Auckland Museum, New Zealand. Photo source, unknown date.

Pachydyptes is an extinct genus of penguin. It contains the single species Pachydyptes ponderosus, the New Zealand giant penguin. This taxon is known from a few bones from the Late Eocene (37 to 34 MYA) rocks in the area of Otago. With a height of 140 to 160 cm and weighing around 80 to possibly over 100 kg, it was the second-tallest penguin ever, surpassed only by Anthropornis nordenskjoeldi in height, but probably not in weight. Pachydyptes was slightly larger than Icadyptes salasi, the best-identified of the giant penguins.

Trivia

• New Zealand Giant Penguin was first unveiled on the official website for the anime on October 18th, 2016.

References

• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pachydyptes