Pigs in boots are cute. And white tigers befriending chimps are adorable… but a sad baby penguin getting cheered up with a goofy looking stuffed toy? The best thing I’ve ever seen in my entire life.*
Via dailymail.com:
A baby penguin which had to be separated from its family after a greedy sibling continually ate all its food has found companionship – with this stuffed toy.
The penguin – called Pingu – began to lose weight and appeared weak after its bigger relative regularly helped himself to all the fish on offer.
Concerned keepers were forced to remove Pingu from the enclosure, but at just three-weeks-old the penguin was in desperate need of company.
Staff bought a £3.99 toy penguin from the zoo shop which acts as a surrogate sibling to the chuffed chick – who cuddles up to its new friend all day.
And trust me, you really do want to click over to the dailymail.com for pictures of the little guy and his new BFF.
All together now: Awwww!!!
(Thanks, Nipper.)
*Statement only valid for the next five minutes.
amazing. thank you! i hope he has larger surroundings than that sad little cement corner he’s in right now.
This actually made me cry. Fuck. I need to get laid.
They should have given it a wire mesh penguin. You know, just to see what happens.
man, penguins are dumb.
Damn cute ass penguin.
I have had birds all my life. Laugh if you must, but I have no doubt birds know love. Real love. And loneliness is the absence of love. “Look deep into nature, and you will understand everything better” -Albert Einstein
Stay away from those puffins.
That is going to be one fucked-up penguin. Imagine a kid who has a mannequin instead of friends.
cuteoverload.com has a “cute or sad?” category specifically for stuff like this. cute? or heartbreaking? you decide!!
Where are the two gay penguins that raised Tango? Are they still fostering?
Cute until he reaches adolescence and realizes his only “friend” has no orifices.
And all these same cooing hypocrites will turn right around and call you sick for getting a RealDoll.
Still not as cute as this
that penguin will make for good eatin’ when it’s old enough, being hand fed like that. yum!
Why did they remove this chick from the family instead of the asshole who was gobbling up all the food? Let the selfish glutton suffer in isolation.