Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/11/08/zookeepers-wear-penguin-disgui.html
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Good idea. I, for one, would not want an Emperor Penguin chasing me around thinking I was a potential sexual partner!
(Hmmm - is there a Batman plot in there somewhere?)
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They imprint on head and hand only? Are we sure those penguins aren’t raised with a lab coat fetish? Antarctica was a place where a scientist didn’t need to worry about fauna. Now better hold on to that soap.
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Previously on boingboing:
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I am surprised this works. I mean, are penguins not that smart?
So, are these penguin head disguises for sale?
(Asking for a friend)
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The vision of infant birds isn’t that good. A penguin-colored face and a penguin-colored glove and a labcoat looks to them like a face and a hand beak and backdrop of ice and snow.
Later on, the baby birds’ vision and eye-tracking gets better, but by then they’re big enough not to get inadvertently crushed by their parents, and can safely be released back into the flock.
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What about smell? Maybe they just don’t know better because they are used to it from birth?
Hmm, I don’t know if penguins have a highly-developed sense of smell! I do know that odors don’t transmit as much information in sub-zero, low-humidity environments as they do in warm, humid ones.
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Whatever weird kinks these zookeepers want to indulge at home is fine, but bringing their fetishwear to work seems a little much to me.
It’s been done before.
One of the better scenes in “Fierce Creaturesa” has the zookeepers dressed as the animals they take care of. So someone’s a porcupine another a sealion, a bee, and a penguin.
Someone put a lot of effort into those costumes.
But no animals got overly excited about the zookeepers.
That’s a work uniform I could totally go for, as well as these:
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I must’ve been fed by a librarian.
Is there actual, scientific evidence to back this up?
(Those baby penguins are cute.)
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