Penguins At The Penguins: Penguins At The Zoo

Penguins at the Zoo My impulse is fed by an irrepressible necessity to get away from the beige and brick-depressing walls of a hotel. Once I fled from this hotel, I immediately drew on my animal lover’s spirit and rushed to the zoo for the first time. After fifty-five minutes, I found myself at the zoo entrance, pushing impetuously a decaying handle of a heavy and worn glass door. Once I set it aside, I let my feet take unhurried and dubitative steps toward the exhibition of oceanic birds that I love, Penguins. Standing in a short line, ¬¬ I viewed the penguins’ exhibit a few steps outside the invisible doorway of a rocky cave. Seeing this place made me feel as excited as a five-year-old kid eager to open up his Christmas presents.

Once I arrived, I felt the nauseating stench of putrefied fish, and open penguins’ defecation invade my nostrils the further I stepped inside the penguins’ residence. The ceiling was a wide, oval and white leaf that connected both left and right walls. On the left, there was a small artificial rocky coast with an upper and a lower level. Perennial climbing plants lay vertically on the upper flat, while water drops descended scantly across the branches, and fell on the lower surface of the moist rocky shore ground as stealthy

The structure of the coast, shore, and pond resembled the one on the left side, but smaller. On top of the rock, there were eight emperor penguins making long and deep trumpeting sounds while rising and shaking their chests and necks. By the shore, there was a lonely penguin; its giant body and black head with broad yellow patches on each side lay still on a wide wet rock. Rays of light that descended like a colorful sunrise and sunset over the horizon, high-lighted the penguin’s intense colored-feathers, and covered its motionless body. The light bulbs placed on the ceiling were to the penguin what the sun was to the ones that still habited in their colonies out there. Its black eyes remained open, but ignored the movements and bustle of the spectators, as if it had gotten used to be an entertainment center, and be intended to stay there the rest of its