penguins!

[kirkcudbright]

Kylie's big birthday present was the Penguin Encounter at the Mystic Aquarium down in Connecticut. It's a small aquarium, but they try to concentrate on doing a few things well. They have a colony of 24 African penguins in an outdoor enclosure, and they use some of them for these "contact" programs.

This individual is a female (as shown by the pink bead on her armband) with the imaginative name of Yellow-Blue.




Note that Kylie is wearing a "Penguins of the World" shirt from the New England Aquarium.


Yellow-Blue in front of a breeding hut.


Feeding time - herring sushi.


Okay, I know some of you don't like bugs, so this is just a link to a Giant African Millipede.

Comments

[weegoddess.livejournal.com]

OMG Kylie looks so beautiful and grown-up. She looks notably older/more mature than when I last saw her in July. And she really looks intent on that penguin.

As for the millipede, yeesh. Bugs don't bother me much in general, but I suspect that all humans have some sort of instinctual aversion to the thought of having said bugs crawl on them. Especially BIG ones.

[catness.livejournal.com]

Heh. Kylie looks just like you, Paul. :)

[lyonesse.livejournal.com]

except when she looks just like francie, which is weirdly just about as often....