To determine how the penguins keep their nests safe with seemingly little shut-eye, Libourel and his colleagues headed to a large chinstrap breeding colony on King George Island just north of ...

These nesting penguins nod off over 10,000 times a day, ... (Pygoscelis antarcticus) gets a few precious seconds of shut-eye on King George Island off the coast of Antarctica. W.Y. Lee. Share this: ...

Zoo director Stephan Hering-Hagenbeck said: 'With a height of up to 95 centimetres, the king penguin is the second-largest penguin species after the emperor penguin. 'King penguins do not build nests.