Great White Pelican
Great White Pelican
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| モモイロペリカン | |||
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| AKA | Eastern White Pelican, Rosy Pelican, or White Pelican
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| Romaji | Momoiroperikan
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| Debut | Kemono Friends Pavilion | ||
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| Scientific Name | Pelecanus onocrotalus
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| Distribution | Southwestern Africa
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| Diet | Piscivore
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| Avg. Lifespan | 30-40 years
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| Read More | Great white pelican
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| Great White Pelican | Pavilion | Stage Play |
“Greetings. This me who fly lazily towards warm place when its become cold; please take care of me. I like swimming. Noisily~, woosh, swoosh~, splash, like that. Also I often being called weird but when I'm hungry, I bite the head of the kid who sits beside me ("bite") Ah... ... nice to meet you”
—Great White Pelican's introduction
Great White Pelican is a type of Bird Friend introduced in the Second Collaboration with Sunshine Aquarium. She has since been featured in Kemono Friends Pavilion.
Appearance
Great White Pelican has almost-white pink hair, cut straight in the front and below her shoulders in the back. Attached to her head are a pair of wings, the lower half of which are black with some blue above them. The hair above her forehead has some yellow on it. Tied up with a pink ribbon with a blue bead on it is yellow, blue, and orange hair. Her eyes are brown. She wears a large white sweater with a white collar and a small yellow patch on the chest. Her tailfeathers which reach the back of her knees are a pale pink. She wears yellow thigh highs with pink open top shoes.
Series Appearances
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In Real Life
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The great white pelican is a migratory bird native to much of Africa, India, western Asia and eastern Europe. They're large birds, around 140 to 180cm in length and have a wingspan of around 220 to 360 cm—the second longest wingspan of any extant flying animal, after the snowy albatross. They have huge yellow bills, up to 45 cm long. Females are significantly smaller than males and less bulky. Their plumage is almost entirely white with a slight pink tinge, a yellow base to the neck and black flight feathers. They may look clumsy or awkward on land or takeoff but they are elegant fliers.
The great white pelican lives in shallow, warm fresh water. They may travel up to 100 kilometers a day to search for food. They often travel and feed in groups in circle formations to prevent any fish from escaping. They feed by using their lower bill as a scoop, then contracting it to blow out the water but keep the fish inside. Their lower bill forms a pouch that can store around 14 liters of water. While fish are their typical quarry, these giants are opportunistic eaters; they are known to steal food from other birds, using their size to bully them away from their meals, and even prey on smaller birds such as pigeons or seagulls, their young, or the fledglings of larger species.
Great white pelicans are very social birds, living in large flocks and breeding colonies exceeding multiple ten thousand birds. Despite their social life, they're rather quiet birds, only occasionally making a few sounds. In spring, they travel from the south northwards to their breeding colonies, where they build their nests and raise their young together. They form monogamous bonds lasting a lifetime. A few populations within Africa also breed year round and do not migrate. Females lay 1 to 4 eggs which hatch after around a month. The young have a dark, brown plumage and fledge after another two months. Juveniles are still brown until they reach maturity at 4 years of age.
Great white pelicans are able to deter most predators with their large size and colonies, but are still subject to predation. Eagles and other birds of prey may have difficulty with an adult pelican, but have been known to raid their nests to eat their chicks and fledglings. Across their African and Indian ranges, large mammals such as lions and jackals may take an opportunity to attack an isolated adult on land, since they can be slow to take flight, and Nile crocodiles may stage ambushes from within the water.