What is African penguin?
{{Taxobox | name = African penguin | image = African.penguin.bristol.750pix (Pingstone).jpg | image_width = 250px | image_caption = | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = <ref name=IUCN2012>{{IUCN|id=106003861 |title=''Spheniscus demersus'' | assessors=BirdLife International |version=2012.1 |year=2012 |accessdate=16 July 2012}}</ref> | status = CR | regnum = [[Animal]]ia | subphylum = [[vertebrate|Vertebrata]] | classis = [[Aves]] | ordo = [[Sphenisciformes]] | familia = [[Spheniscidae]] | genus = ''[[Spheniscus]]'' | binomial = ''Spheniscus demersus'' | binomial_authority = ([[Carolus Linnaeus|Linnaeus]], 1758)}} [[File:Spheniscus demersus MHNT.ZOO.2010.11.43.13.jpg|thumb| ''Spheniscus demersus'']] The '''African penguin''' (''Spheniscus demersus''), also known as the '''Black-footed''' or '''Jackass penguin''', is found on the south-western coast of [[Africa]]. It lives in colonies on 24 islands between [[Namibia]] and Algoa Bay, near [[Port Elizabeth]], [[South Africa]]. The largest colony on [[Gansbaai, Western Cape|Dyer Island]], near Kleinbaai. Two colonies were established by [[penguin]]s in the 1980s on the mainland near Cape Town at [[Boulders Beach]] near [[Simon's Town]] and Stony Point in [[Betty's Bay]]. Mainland colonies probably only became possible in recent times due to fewer predators, although the Betty's Bay colony has been attacked by [[leopards]]. The only other mainland colony is in Namibia, but it is not known when this was established. The African penguin may live up to 20 years. It grows up to 65 cm tall and weighs up to 3 kg. They eat fish, crabs and squids. The breeding time is 38 days. Boulders Beach is a tourist attraction, for the beach, swimming and the penguins. The penguins will allow people to approach them as close as a meter (three ft). The closest relatives of the African Penguins are the [[Humboldt Penguin|Humboldt]] and [[Magellanic Penguin|Magellanic]] penguins found in southern [[South America]] and the [[Galápagos Penguin]] found in the [[Pacific Ocean]] near th