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THE Zoological Park at Edinburgh has had the good fortune to possess, almost from its inception, a small group of king penguins. Three of the birds were received in January, 1914, from South Georgia, a second consignment, of which three survived, arriving in the spring of 1917. A hope was excited that they might breed when two of them were observed to be mating in the autumn of 1915, but nothing further occurred at that time. In the late summer of 1917 one of the birds became broody, and sat in the posture of incubation for about a month, but no egg was apparently laid, nor was this bird one of the two which had been observed to be paired. It was not until 1918 that the paired birds really settled down in earnest, and much interest was aroused when, on July 8 of that year, one of them was found to have an egg.
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GILLESPIE, T. The Breeding of the King Penguin. Nature 104, 314 (1919). https://doi.org/10.1038/104314a0
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