1 South Georgia's king penguin populations too are soaring.

2 King Penguin; Fox; horse and Bear.

3 Going beak to beak, an adult king penguin challenges a skua attempting to make off with a freshly killed chick.

4 Strikingly colored,[] an adult king penguin stands out in a sea of chicks on South Georgia Island.

5 "Our findings suggest that king penguin populations are at heavy extinction risk under the current global warming predictions," the study's authors wrote.

6 Here a mother king penguin guided her chick, which still sports its somewhat comical-looking baby feathers.

7 A King Penguin stands among a large number of chicks in the Southern Ocean.

8 King penguin, Have you seen the King Penguins in the zoo?

9 Lala the king penguin lives with a family in Japan, and he wears a little penguin backpack on his trips to the fish market. Awwwww, that's adorable!

10 Nothing had quite prepared us for the sheer presence of king penguins.

11 In particular, we must note the generous and imaginative sponsorship of the group of king penguins by McVitie's Biscuits.

12 Walk up to the beach crest and the view opens up: to the south, penguins forever, a rookery of 150, 000 pairs, the largest king penguin colony on South Georgia.