🐧 Pesto
King penguin · SEA LIFE Melbourne, Australia
Lives in Arctic Shelf
The absolute unit. At 9 months this brown fluffball weighed 23.5kg - more than both parents combined - and towered motionless over the adult penguins. 1.9 billion views. Katy Perry visited. He has since molted into a sleek young king and fans are still in mourning for the fluff.
What they do
Towers over the adult penguins as a giant brown fluffball, then inhales whole fish.
Gentle giant baby - 23 kilos of fluff thinking exclusively about fish.
Lore
- ★Ate up to 25 fish a day at peak fluff
- ★Weighed 200g at hatch, 24.8kg at 10 months
- ★'Pesto is basto now' - fans, after the molt
Helping the real one
💛 Support Pesto via SEA LIFE TrustUK marine conservation charity no. 1175859 - verified live donate flow This opens their own official page. Money never touches this site.
The coin
$PESTO Peaked ~$40M in the Sept 2024 wave; faded with the fluff
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Where this comes from
- Al Jazeera Who is Pesto the penguin and why does everyone love him? ↗
- SEA LIFE Melbourne Aquarium Official SEA LIFE Melbourne page for Pesto ↗
- ABC News (Australia) Could Pesto the penguin have found love at the aquarium? ↗
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