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==Diet== Gentoos mainly live on [[fish]], [[crustacean]]s such as [[krill]] and [[shrimp]], and [[cephalopods]].<ref name="Pygoscelis papua Gentoo penguin">{{cite web | title=Pygoscelis papua (gentoo penguin) | website=Animal Diversity Web | date=2011 | url=https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Pygoscelis_papua/ | access-date=2024-04-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231005013009if_/https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Pygoscelis_papua/|archive-date=2023-10-05}}</ref> In February and March, crustaceans make up about 10% of the diet, but from March to June, it is about 75%. From June to October, [[grey rockcod|grey rockcod (Lepidonotothen squamifrons)]] make up 90% of their diet.<ref name="Pygoscelis papua Gentoo penguin"/> Cephalopods make up only 10% of the diet throughout the year. Gentoos are [[List of feeding behaviours|opportunistic feeders]], and around the Falklands are known to take roughly equal proportions of fish (''[[Patagonotothen]]'' sp., ''[[Thysanopsetta naresi]]'', ''[[Micromesistius australis]]''), [[squat lobster]]s (''[[Munida gregaria]]'') and [[squid]] (''[[Loligo gahi]]'', ''[[Gonatus antarcticus]]'', ''[[Moroteuthis ingens]]''). Other prey include ''[[Channichthys rhinoceratus]]'' and [[octopus]]es.<ref name="Pygoscelis papua Gentoo penguin"/>
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