As regular CFZ-watchers will know, for some time Corinna has been doing a column for Animals & Men and a regular segment on On The Track... particularly about out-of-place birds and rare vagrants. There seem to be more and more bird stories from all over the world hitting the news these days so, to make room for them all - and to give them all equal and worthy coverage - she has set up this new blog to cover all things feathery and Fortean.

Thursday 5 October 2017

The world's saddest penguin: Heartbroken bird slumps with despair after cardboard cutout of a cartoon character it had fallen in love with is put away for safekeeping at Japanese zoo

Grape-kun was pictured slumped in despair after zookeepers removed cutout
Staff are worried a typhoon at Tobu Zoo in Miyashiro, Japan could blow it away
The 20-year-old penguin began unlikely romance with the cardboard character
It comes after he was 'dumped' by a female with whom he was with for ten years
PUBLISHED: 13:09, 19 September 2017 | UPDATED: 19:41, 19 September 2017
An elderly penguin has been left heartbroken after a cardboard cutout of a cartoon character it had fallen in love with was taken away to safeguard it from a typhoon.
Grape-kun was pictured slumped in despair after keepers removed the cutout from his enclosure at Tobu Zoo, in Miyashiro, Japan amid fears it could be blown away.
The 20-year-old penguin began an unlikely romance with the cardboard character after being 'dumped' by a female with whom he was coupled with for ten years.
Grape-kun was pictured slumped in despair after zookeepers removed the cutout at Tobu Zoo, in Miyashiro, Japan amid fears it could be blown away
The 20-year-old penguin (shown) began an unlikely romance with the cardboard character after being 'dumped' by a female with whom he was coupled with for ten years
'Hululu has to evacuate because of the typhoon,' tweeted the Tobu Zoo Twitter account. 'Sorry, Grape-kun.'
Zoo staff was concerned for Grape-kun after the end of his relationship with Midori, who left him for a younger penguin.

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