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You are invited to use this accompanying artwork when you use or teach with palmerpenguins! Please cite with “Artwork by @allison_horst”.

Meet the Palmer penguins

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Culmen measurements

What are culmen length & depth? The culmen is “the upper ridge of a bird’s beak” (definition from Oxford Languages). In the simplified penguins subset, culmen length and depth have been updated to variables named bill_length_mm and bill_depth_mm.

For this penguin data, the bill/culmen length and depth are measured as shown below (thanks Kristen Gorman for clarifying!):

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palmerpenguins hex sticker

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