What a rogue. An Antarctic fur seal was caught in the act trying to have sex with a king penguin. The incident wasn't too unlike a Paris Hilton escapade--the act lasted for 45 minutes, was caught on camera, and then sleazy still photos were strewn about by the press (but rather than US Weekly it was the Journal of Ethology and BBC News). It's not clear the attempt was successful but at least the penguin survived. Marine life these days... Read more on sexual coercion in animals here.
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A lot of zoos have very neat murals and other works of art. Over the weekend we visited Marwell here in Hampshire: it's our 'local' zoo and we go there a lot. I really like the 'march of the penguins' feature they have on the outside of the penguin pool.
Professional snipers have been brought in to guard a vulnerable colony of penguins in Australia.
Having worked down on the ice several times, this brings to mind any number of punch lines to well worn jokes freely shared, adapted and modified by the workers down there, the most droll of which goes something like this "oh? No, just a little ice cream."