Well it must be said there are not many things in life that are free, but thanks to the good folks at the Living Coasts - Torquay's Coastal Zoo, Devon UK, it is true! To celebrate the 200th birthday of Charles ('Chaz' to his friends) Darwin a free open day was held and very well attended...and a good time was had by all the folks and even the animals from what I could tell. So walking quickly past the Research Councils displays on Chaz and evolution and a lonely extinct Great Auk (sadly leaving the building it would appear). it seems all visitors had done their own research and rushed to the back of the facility to await Penguin feeding, very engagingly and informatively carried out by the friendly LC crew.
The penguins knew when breakfast was, and were stationed about, queueing up as if in the staff canteen, sunning themselves as though not interested, or even engaged in a game of winghanging blink. When Attenborough covered these guys it looked like one massive brawl, so maybe with respect to Mr Darwin they were on best behaviour today.
Pat (an african penguin) the famed oldest resident at 31 years old pushed through the crowd (of people) and insisted on having her portrait taken for Darwin Day. I obliged. Sadly little blues or fairy penguins were only represented as a wall carving. Overhead the cohort of Inca terns were amazing, playing drop-catch with a spare sardine(?), I have no idea how the scoring works. However they would drop everything (literally) for a hola-hoop.
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