BONUS Penguin!

~Of course, I saved the best for last. There was one more species of penguin in the Ueno Zoo, and I couldn't resist taking a few pictures:

^ What kind of penguin is this, you ask? I think this sign says it all:

^ Jackass Penguin (Spheniscus demersus). Its name comes not from its intellect, but rather from its loud, braying call, which sounds like a donkey (or jackass, if you prefer). Found only off the Southwest coast of Africa, the population of Jackass penguins has plummeted in the past sixty years from 1.2 million to an estimated 120,000 today. Penguin eggs were long considered delicacies, and environmental threats continue to whittle down their numbers, including a terrible oil spill in 2000. Somehow, I think any animal that's been named the "jackass" deserves some slack.

~Oyasumi!