Pengwing

This article is about the Pengwing. You may be looking for the Pengling.

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</group> </infobox> The Pengwing is a small predatory fauna species and the adult form of the Pengling.

Appearance

The Pengwing has a furry body, white on the chest and light blue on the back with a yellow bands dividing them. Like many creatures on 4546B, it has two pairs of eyes, yellow in color with black pupils. Though unlike other creatures the eyes face different directions; the smaller pair is front-mounted, offering binocular vision and depth perception. Whilst the larger pair is side-mounted, offering a much wider field of view.

About one third of the creature's height is made up by the huge beak atop its head. This beak opens horizontally rather than vertically, and rows of long black dental spines lie within. The beak is mostly black with a band of green and blue around halfway up. At the base of the beak on either side is a small, respiratory orifice.

There are two long flippers on either side of the body and two triangular pads with leathery soles for their feet. Two serrated claws are seen on the foot pads, allowing the pengwing to grip the ice. The body ends with a thin black tail with a white band near the tip. The tail retracts when not swimming.

Behavior

Pengwings spend about half their time above water and the other half underwater. When above water, they stay on ice floats or other land areas with a large group of other Penglings and Pengwings and waddle around, occasionally stopping to stretch their wings and back. Pengwings can be seen diving headfirst into the water, at which point they will swim around hunting for food. Pengwings can be observed attacking and killing smaller fish while swimming.

Pengwings are defensive and will only attack the player if they pick up or attack a Pengling, or attack another Pengwing.

Data Bank Entry

Pengwing
<poem>Bird-like creature, hunts small fish below the water, huddles in packs on the ice above. Consumes small prey fish and regurgitates them for its young Retractable, detachable, luminescent tail for fast evasion of predators Sharp teeth concealed inside the beak are defensive, used to tear chunks out of aggressors Huddles in packs on the surface for protection against the cold Assessment: Less cuddly than they look</poem>
Source: Scan Pengwings

Design

The Pengwing is inspired by real life penguins.

Gallery

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  Side view

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  Front view

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  Back view

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  Top view

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  Bioluminescence

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  Size comparison to the player

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  A Pengwing swimming around the Shallow Twisty Bridges

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  A group of Pengwings and Penglings on an ice float

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  Final Pengwing and Pengling 5 design - by Alex Ries

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  Pengling colour variants - by Alex Ries

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  Details on the Pengwing's foot design and movement - by Alex Ries

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  Early Pengwing design - by Alex Ries

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  Early Pengwing design - by Alex Ries

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  "Alien Penguin Version B" - by Alex Ries

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  Penguin 5 color variants - by Alex Ries

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  Very early Pengwing and Pengling design - by Pat Presley

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  Experimenting with a placeholder Pengwing model

• Pingu 2

  More experimentation with a placeholder Pengwing model

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  Adult Pengwing model on Sketchfab

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  Non-Subnautica art by Alex Ries (2012), appears to have inspired the penguin's mouth

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  Non-Subnautica alien bird art by Alex Ries (2016), has the same tail design as the Pengwing as well as the same color scheme.

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  A parent Pengwing and it's offspring

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Trivia

• The name "Pengwing" could be a reference to how Benedict Cumberbatch pronounces the word "Penguin." This can be viewed here.