Penguin parade

Wild animals are not toys. Wonder who the real jackasses in this case are.

Inside at that place is passable, but the penguins outside are kept in terrible shape. I talked with the management about it, but only got a lot of air being sucked.

ONLY IN JAPAN WOULD THIS BE CONSIDERED CUTE!!!!

Nough said!!!

I think they need pants. They are dressed in the colors of Italian soccer fans.

Wild animals are not toys. Wonder who the real jackasses in this case are.

Bwahahahhaa. Thank you.

Poor little guys. What does the zoo think they are.... chihuahuas?

haha stop complaining people, took me 5 hours to catch them all and put their coats and shawls on. Merry pingusmas

They must sound like a donkey.

what are they dancing to hip hop or rock and roll

The one on the left and the second one on the right (the one in front) look like they got into an argument.

They are so cute and adorable

Wrong in so many ways.

Awesomeness!

I agree with chillock and DentShop.

YongYang- Wrong in like what way?

You dont see a gorilla walking into a fancy dress shop asking for a gorilla costume... Its already got one... It's a symptom of people thinking animals are 'things', a fashion statement or a 'thing' to make them feel better or go, 'Ohh, how cuuute'. No, it's an animal. living entity with, believ it or not, rights. Whether its Paris Hilton with a dog that looks more like a rat or people with nothing better to spend money on it's so 20th century. Give the money to charity. Not a poor penguin parade and leave the goddamn penguins alone or any other animal for that matter. All animals deserve respect. They are not only in the world, they are aware of it. What happens to them matters to them. Each has a life that fares better or worse for the one whose life it is.

What jackass named this breed of penguins as such?

Anyway, I'm with YongYang and the others that this is really just cruelty forgiven by some because it's 'kawaiiiiii!!'. Zoos in Japan are pretty substandard as it is, doing this does nothing to make them any better.

Jackass penguins dressed up in Xmas gear? Wouldn't surprise me to see a Polar Bear at the Asahiyama zoo donning a Santa Suit on JTs pic of the day tomorrow - all in the name of Kawaii Ku-risu-masu!

Zoos in Japan are pretty substandard as it is, doing this does nothing to make them any better.

Agreed with Smith - this just re-inforces the notion of wild/exotic animals as being objects for us to toy with. If society MUST have zoos - make them reserves with space for the poor creatures to move around in.

Animal Cruelty @ its finest. Shame in this country and society for thinking this is cute. I do NOT patronize animal cruelty. I do NOT go to such ugly distasteful places.

This is great, who cares what crazy PETE people say and their supporters. More of a reason why we should keep doing this

This is great, who cares what crazy PETE people say and their supporters. More of a reason why we should keep doing this

Spoken like a true Nihon-jin.

@BurakuminDes "Spoken like a true Nihon-jin.". No, typical japanese people hear what you say, ignore it and keep doing what they do. They are not vocal, they don't express their opinions strongly but I do. Typical Japanese people and government worry about what outsiders think of them too much. We should learn from American government a little (but not too much), "we don't care what you think, we will do whatever we want to do".

anthropomorphism at it's worst.....

... Jackass Penguins?

Back on topic please.

What deranged scientist would call penguins jackasses, haha!

@BurakuminDes

This is great, who cares what crazy PETE people say and their supporters. More of a reason why we should keep doing this

Spoken like a true Nihon-jin.

PRICELESS comment.. you made my morning!

@Hide Suzuki

@BurakuminDes "Spoken like a true Nihon-jin.". No, typical japanese people hear what you say, ignore it and keep doing what they do. They are not vocal, they don't express their opinions strongly but I do. Typical Japanese people and government worry about what outsiders think of them too much. We should learn from American government a little (but not too much), "we don't care what you think, we will do whatever we want to do".

Nonsense, everyone in this house is Japanese and YOU don't speak for them. You are NOT the normal Japanese, you are the EXCEPTION to the rule.

@BlueWitch If i was the exception, then why are they dressing the penguins ? No i don't speak for the entire japanese people just like your opinions don't represent majority of Japanese people either

I know this is very non-PC and on the whole I am totally against animal cruelty - but I dont honestly see any cruelty here, and as much as I cant normally abide the cutesy cutesy animal crap that goes on here - this picture is actually pretty cool! (no pun intended)

Sorry Bluewitch please dont hate me! :( I am normally totally on your side but I just love penguins and these guys look so cute!