Maybe he had a fish in his pocket...

Went to the zoo with Katie for her birthday. It was a fun day, and you'll see more photos up on the ol' Flickr in the days to come, but I thought I'd play around with some black and whites with a few black-and-white birds.

Humboldt Pengiun (cuteus adorablenus)

This, is a Humboldt penguin. They're adorable, cuddly, and smell like rotting fish-heads.

Usually when you see these guys in the Penguinarium (yes, that's the actual term) the birds swim around in the water, but seldom "do" anything. Until today.

Yes. That is a construction worker's hard hat floating in the water. No idea why it was there, but it was. My theory is that the penguins attacked a maintenance man or something.

Needless to say, when we got there all that was left of the poor guy was this hat. And the penguins were loving it. They were all over it, jumping on it, biting it, etc.

R.I.P. generic construction worker. Your sacrifice made for a fun few minutes in the Penguinarium.