Really, what is there to say about this video of Cookie, an adorably-named, adorably-squealing adorable baby penguin from the Cincinnati Zoo being tickled? Aside from the fact that the footage, quality-wise, looks like something from that underground market in 8MM, all I can say is that this is finally the cutest thing ever. The Internet can shut down now folks, we’ve found it. Now let’s just watch it over and over forever. You know how those MMORPG dudes die all the time from not leaving their virtual world to rejoin the real world and eat and sleep and poop? I’m going to die like that, right now, from watching this, and if you don’t like that you can go jump in a lake.Update! Motherboard contributor Martin Connelly just wrote me an email adding some more info on the video. This is what I get for doing absolutely no research before posting:It’s trying to mate with that arm.
Says my wife, the honest-to-goodness bird scientist: “that’s how penguins coerce females into mating”
The HuffPo has it as a Little (blue) penguin, not a baby.
Doesn’t make it less cute. But, makes it a little sadder.Follow Derek Mead on Twitter: @derektmead.
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