Penguin (Adélie Penguin by Hawkkeye)

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Adélie Penguin

ZooTek Phoenix

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Author: Hawkkeye

Keywords: penguins, flightless birds, Antarctica

Release date: 25 September 2021

File Size: n/a

Compatibility: All Game Versions

Description: Part of the Penguin Pack
Adélie Penguins breed in big colonies in Antarctic.
Compatibility guide: Adélie Penguin: ingame Emperor Penguin

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Additional info:

PenguinsByHawkkeye.zip: combined/PenguinsCombinedByHawkkeye.ztd
PenguinsByHawkkeye.zip: AdeliePenguinByHawkkeye.ztd: uca: hwadelie dated 21 June 2021

Previously in hawkkeyespenguins.ztd and hawkkeyespenguins2ndversion.ztd

Results From Configuration Checking (2021-05-30 checker version):

hwadelie.uca date: Mon Jun 21 22:37:22 2021
No Errors or Warnings to show.

Animal Type: hwadelie

Adélie Penguin

The Adélie penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae) is a species of penguin common along
the entire coast of the Antarctic continent, which is its only habitat. It is
the most widely spread penguin species, as well as the most southerly
distributed of all penguins, along with the emperor penguin. It is named after
Adélie Land, in turn named for Adele Dumont d'Urville, who was married to
French explorer Jules Dumont d'Urville, who first discovered this penguin in
1840. Adélie penguins obtain their food by both predation and foraging, with a
diet of mainly krill and fish. These penguins are mid-sized, being 46 to 71 cm
(18 to 28 in) in height and 3.6 to 6.0 kg (7.9 to 13.2 lb) in weight.
Distinctive marks are the white ring surrounding the eye and the feathers at
the base of the bill. These long feathers hide most of the red bill. The tail
is a little longer than other penguins' tails. The appearance looks somewhat
like a tuxedo. They are a little smaller than most other penguin species. The
Adélie penguin is known to feed mainly on Antarctic krill, ice krill,
Antarctic silverfish, sea krill, and glacial squid (diet varies depending on
geographic location) during the chick-rearing season. The stable isotope
record of fossil eggshell accumulated in colonies over the last 38,000 years
reveals a sudden change from a fish-based diet to krill that began around 200
years ago. This is most likely due to the decline of the Antarctic fur seal
since the late 18th century and baleen whales during the early 20th century.
The reduction of competition from these predators has resulted in a surplus of
krill, which the penguins now exploit as an easier source of food. Jellyfish
including species in the genera Chrysaora and Cyanea were found to be actively
sought-out food items, while they previously had been thought to be only
accidentally ingested. Similar preferences were found in the little penguin,
yellow-eyed penguin, and Magellanic penguin. Adélie penguins arrive at their
breeding grounds in late October or November, after completing a migration
that takes them away from the Antarctic continent for the dark, cold winter
months. Their nests consist of stones piled together. In December, the warmest
month in Antarctica (about -2 °C or 28 °F), the parents take turns incubating
the egg; one goes to feed and the other stays to warm the egg. The parent that
is incubating does not eat and doesn't even leave to defecate but instead
projects feces away from the nest. In March, the adults and their young return
to the sea. The Adélie penguin lives on sea ice, but needs the ice-free land
to breed. With a reduction in sea ice, populations of the Adélie penguin have
dropped by 65% over the past 25 years in the Antarctic Peninsula. Adélie
penguins living in the Ross Sea region in Antarctica migrate an average of
about 13,000 kilometres (8,100 mi) each year as they follow the sun from their
breeding colonies to winter foraging grounds and back again. During the
winter, the sun does not rise south of the Antarctic Circle, but sea ice grows
during the winter months and increases for hundreds of miles from the
shoreline, and into more northern latitudes, all around Antarctica. As long as
the penguins live at the edge of the fast ice, they will see sunlight. As the
ice recedes in the spring, the penguins remain on the edge of it, until once
again, they are on the shoreline during a sunnier season. The longest treks
have been recorded at 17,600 kilometres (10,900 mi). Model and Skin: DEMON
HUNTER, AURORA DESIGNS. Text and Image: Eng Wikipedia.

Animal Characteristics:

Habitat: Tundra; Location: Antarctica
Cost: 600; Crowd number: 45
ZT Family: Bird; ZT Genus: Penguin
Minimum happiness needed for chance of breeding: 85
Preferred shelter: Small Concrete Shelter
Animal can swim in water terrain.
Animal can swim in tanks.

Exhibit Preferences:

Foliage:
Arctic Birch Tree (DD), Arctic Grass (DD), Arctic Bush (DD), Snowy Tree (CC)
Snowy Bush (CC), Snowy Grass (CC)

Rocks:
Small Snowy Rock, Medium Snowy Rock, Large Snowy Rock
Large Snowy Rock - Medium, Arctic Rock (CC)

Specifically liked shelters:
Snowy Rock Cave, Small Concrete Shelter, Concrete Shelter
Large Concrete Shelter, Small Wood Shelter, Wood Shelter, Large Wood Shelter

Other specifically liked objects:
Snowy Rock Formation, Ice Floe (MM), Raft (MM)

Other specifically tolerated objects:
Tank Filter (MM)

Exhibit Construction:

Number of animals allowed per exhibit: 4-99 with 4 squares for each adult

Exhibit size (for 4 adults): 16 grid squares

Terrain (for exhibit with 16 grid squares):
10 Salt Water, 6 Snow

Foliage (for exhibit with 16 grid squares):
No foliage should be used.

Rocks (for exhibit with 16 grid squares):
4 Small Snowy Rock, which is its most liked rock