Predators and Threats. Emperor penguins are preyed upon by a number of large, marine carnivores, but their exact predators vary between geographic locations.

Emperor penguins are an integral part of the Antarctic food chain, in which they prey upon squid and small fish and are preyed upon by larger predators like the leopard seal and killer whale.

Emperor penguins rely on sea ice to form breeding colonies, forage for food and avoid predators. They are the tallest and heaviest of all living penguin species with adults weighing up to 88 ...

Studying how an upper-level predator like the Emperor penguin is coping with climate change can tell scientists about the health of the entire Southern Ocean ecosystem, explains Le Bohec.

Emperor penguins reign supreme on land, where they have no predators, but their survival depends on the presence of sea ice, where they raise their chicks.

There are as many as 650,000 emperor penguins now in Antarctica. ... the penguins lose needed space to breed and raise chicks and to avoid predators. Their key food source, ...

Emperor penguins don't live on U.S ... during their annual moult and to escape from predators. The penguin population at Pointe Géologie declined by half in the late 1970s when sea ice ...

For emperor penguins waddling around a warming Antarctic, ... Moreover, due to their position at the upper level of the food web, working on top-predators such as Emperor penguins, ...

Ancient Penguins Were Giant Waddling Predators. The 57-million-year-old fossil is both fearsome and comical: a long-beaked penguin that stood 5 feet 7 inches tall and weighed about 220 pounds.

The emperor penguin is the largest species of penguin in the world and also one of the most unique. Instead of breeding in the warmer summer months like other penguin species, ...