one for the Brits

[chelidon]

Okay, I'm crazy-busy right now, but I couldn't resist posting this, particularly for ravenedgewalker and snakey, but also for anyone who's been at Tejas Camp the last couple of years:

Pudgy penguins get workout to shed pounds

Wow. There ya go -- proof that you clever penguin-racing Brits are just years ahead of the times.

Comments

[ravenedgewalker.livejournal.com]

!!!! poor little penguins :) but see penguin exersise really works...

[morrigandaughtr.livejournal.com]

Oh. My. God.

[kaigou.livejournal.com]

I got to see penguin parade as a kid, when we went to the zoo in Edinburgh, I think it was. Every day they had the penguins march from one enclosure to another, so the keepers could clean out the first. It wasn't very far -- maybe about two hundred feet? -- but the penguins would line up of their own accord. I recall the zoo keeper saying that the penguins had their own pecking order, and the keepers knew better than to interfere.

Emporer penguins went first, of course, and they tend to walk with their noses in the air. Of course, my sister was also only about 5 at the time, and an emporer penguin isn't much shorter than a 5 yr old. My sister was somewhere between entranced and utterly terrified. Heh.