While hunting, the species can remain submerged around 20 minutes, diving to a depth of 535 m (1,755 ft). Its diet consists primarily of fish, but also includes crustaceans, such as krill, and cephalopods, such as squid. Like all penguins, it is flightless, with a streamlined body, and wings stiffened and flattened into flippers for a marine habitat. Feathers of the head and back are black and sharply delineated from the white belly, pale-yellow breast and bright-yellow ear patches. The male and female are similar in plumage and size, reaching 100 cm (39 in) in length and weighing from 22 to 45 kg (49 to 99 lb). The emperor penguin ( Aptenodytes forsteri) is the tallest and heaviest of all living penguin species and is endemic to Antarctica.
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