Scientific name: Pygoscelis adeliae

Location: shores around the Antarctic continent

Size: 46 to 75 cm in length

Life Span: 20 years

Current Status:

Habitat: open ocean and shore line

Fast facts:

• eats Antarctic krill, ice krill, Antarctic silverfish, Glacial Squid
• 3.9 to 5.8 kg in weigh
• they migrate up to 13,000 kilometres a year
• main predator is the skua
• can swim up to 72kph