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Nine-month-old Pesto, a comically large king penguin chick at Australia’s Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium, has waddled into our hearts and inspired our creative sides. At a whopping 52 pounds (~23.6 kg), ✨thick chick Pesto✨ is the largest baby king penguin born in captivity at the aquarium, weighing more than his parents combined and maintaining a steady diet of 25 to 32 fish a day.
King penguins are primarily endemic to the subantarctic islands, the southernmost tip of Argentinian Patagonia, and the northern reaches of Antarctica, with adults typically weighing between.
