Zoos Are Keeping Penguins Busy With Bubbles and Frankly I’m Disappointed in Penguins
Newquay Zoo decided to cheer up its penguins with some bubbles.
The lockdown restrictions in Cornwall prevented the penguins from keeping up their usual routine. Staff wanted to keep the birds entertained when someone donated a bubble machine to the zoo.
A brief clip shows the penguins captivated by the steady stream of flowing bubbles in their habitat. The reason why the species enjoys chasing the bubbles so much is that it triggers their instincts as predators.
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We’ve talked a lot on the pod recently about not yucking other people’s yums. If you don’t know what that means, it’s okay, I didn’t either. Nick says weird shit sometimes, and we just let it go. Basically, it means whatever floats your boat floats your boat and I don’t want to shit on that. That being said, I’m extremely disappointed in penguins. The past few weeks and months I’ve really enjoyed hearing about the various efforts to keep penguins entertained during this difficult time of no visitors and increased penguin social distancing.
They’ve taken trips to the field museum, they’ve taken trips to the gift shop, they’ve gone out on the town, and it makes sense because penguins are not simple creatures. Or, atleast, I thought they weren’t. You’re telling me the same creatures that enjoyed the luxuries of a solo tour of Chicago’s finest dinosaurs were pacified with a steady stream of bubbles? That’s bullshit. Give the tour to another animal then. Here I was thinking that penguins deserved more- that they needed more. I guess not. I overestimated you, penguins; and I can be man enough to admit it.
I bet this is the Shedd Aquarium calling the penguins’ bluff. You know some janitor in the back was like, “hey how ya doin ya know these fuckin’ penguins don’t need to go the the field museum, they like bubbles” You’ve got the staff in the break room muttering to themselves “these fuckin’ penguins been pulling our legs this whole time.” If you’re the penguins you gotta be smarter than this. You gotta realize what’s at stake. When you settled for bubbles you fucked the whole thing up. Who knows how much you could have gotten? Ferris Wheel at the pier? Rooftop tickets for the cubs? Coupla salmon steaks at Ditka’s? We’ll never know, ya dumb birds, we’ll never know.
p.s. I now realize that the zoo in question is in England, and is not the Shedd Aquarium. The accents change, the situation stays the same. Newquay Zoo is doing some behind the scenes digging to double check their brothers in zoo keeping overseas. Those British penguins just ruined it for everyone!
