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abandoned-as-mustard · 2 months ago

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I love our fat king pesto

I saw him recently and my dad almost couldn't believe he was real

#Melbourne aquarium #sea life Melbourne

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lacquerheadd · 1 year ago

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call me little sunshine, call me mephistopheles.

#ghost #the band ghost #papa emeritus #papa emeritus iv #wip #ghost bc #tobias forge #still cant believe i saw them live #if anyone was at the melbourne show i was the bitch on crutches making everyone’s life more difficult #papa emeritus 4 #cardinal copia #papa copia #ghost copia #copia #art #digital art #sketch #popia

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sweettrans · 3 months ago

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xia0ming56 · 27 days ago

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Train ride home after a tiring case😪😪

#my ipad crashed . so. so many times while drawing this #poor thing was fighting for its life #so am i rn tbh jts 2:30 am i m gna schedule this post n eep gn guys #also if ur frm Melbourne +10 pts if u can recognise the station hehe #sherlock and co #sherlock & co #sh&co #johnlock #sherlock #sherlock holmes #podlock #john watson

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illustratus · 1 year ago

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Swedish high jumper Gunhild Larking at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia

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makingyourfavindti · 2 months ago

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curious about what a king/emperor penguin would look like in dti! (bonus: pesto, the giant baby penguin from melbourne's sea life aquarium)

i made a king penguin from real life and pesto the giant baby penguin from melbourne's sea life aquarium in dress to impress

thanks for the request!

#roblox #dti #dti roblox #dress to impress #pose 23 #penguin #king penguin #pesto the penguin #real life #melbourne's sea life aquarium #animals #poseless

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thepastisalreadywritten · 2 months ago

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#Pesto #baby penguin #penguin #king penguin #Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium #Australia #fledging #Michaela Smale #penguin keeper #viral #social media #animals #colony

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local-hellhound-steals-spaghetti · 1 month ago

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hello! I've been binge reading your posts on Moo Deng and just generally following the discussion around zoos and handling wild life. I showed the posts to a friend and she mentioned she was more worried about Pesto (the huge king penguin at Sea Life Melbourne), given what looks like a small enclosure packed with penguins. I'd imagine the concerns are different from Moo Deng as Sea Life Melbourne seems much more careful about keepers' contact with the penguins, but I was curious what the attitude towards penguins in Australian zoos/aquariums are in general?

Admittedly before this I'd been following the principle of "as long as a zoo/aquarium is WAZA accredited they're fine" but the discussion around Khao Kheow Open Zoo has made me much more wary now...

Good question! I have ... mixed feelings about Sea Life for personal reasons but there doesn't appear to be any welfare concerns with Pesto. He's just big! Just a healthy mix of good genetics, good parenting and a lot of food.

Sea Life Melbourne is accredited by Zoos and Aquariums Australia - I don't think they have WAZA certification though. While the penguin enclosure looks small and crowded in certain angles, penguins do tend to cluster together as a social behaviour and I know they definitely have access to back areas away from public view and water to swim in.

They also have a great enrichment program for their penguins and a very successful breeding program of Gentoo and King Penguins.

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The reason why I find Pesto to be not the same as Moo Deng is the reason he became famous. It's literally just because he's big and fluffy and hasn't had his moult yet. They're not harassing him, he's just getting very well fed by initially his parents and then the keepers.

Even though the public do bang on the acrylic, the penguins aren't getting flooded by the sight of guests because the glass is opaque on their side.

That significantly reduces the chance of stress caused by guests and the keepers follow correct handling protocols around the penguins.

Penguins have pretty high standards of care here in Australia. The main species of penguins you'll see in zoological facilities would be the Gentoo and King Penguins for sub Antarctic, but we also have breeding colonies of Australian Little Penguins in a few zoos and aquariums too.

#pesto the penguin #sea life Melbourne #animal welfare #zoo animal welfare

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peninsulaisms · 8 days ago

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i need this house distilled n injected into my blood

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thelastwalkingsoul · 5 months ago

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Totally forgot to post these! My friend and I dressed up as Chloe (him) and Rachel (me!) for Oz Comic Con last weekend. Imagine my friggin surprise when they put out a new Life is Strange trailer TWO DAYS LATER.

Anyway, ENJOY!

ALSO MY FRIEND MADE HIS SHIRT WITH POSCA PAINT PENS AND DOTTING IT ON. WHICH IS SICKKKKK

#I wish I could have shown our faces #but ha nope #only certain irl peeps know about this account so #BUT #my friend did my makeup and he has so many piercings it fits chloe so well #also comic con was so much fun AH #we had so many people asking for photos it was great #life is strange #rachel amber #chloe price #lis #life is strange cosplay #rachel amber cosplay #chloe price cosplay #oz comic con #melbourne oz comic con #souls bs

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yakultii · 9 days ago

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the nights are harsh but a new day comes around

#and some days are like nights but we try again anyway !#6 November #proof I went outside !!#november #YAKULTII #IT WAS SO HOT TODAY BUT ALSO SO GLOOMY BUT ALSO SO NICE AND WEIRD TYPICAL MELBOURNE #i felt so ug today but then i lived my life and got over it #how can I see ugly when I had a nice life today !#romanticising the mundane but the mundane was so nice

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nighttime-thoughts · 8 months ago

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So i'll watch your life in pictures like i used to watch you sleep

and i feel you forget me like i used to feel you breathe

and i'll keep up with our old friends just to ask them how you are

hope its nice where you are.

Last Kiss - Taylor Swift

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pencildragons · 17 days ago

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third of the way through season 4 of house and tbh idgaf about ANYTHING narratively relevant going on rn i just wanna see chase do a cunty little lunge again like he does when hes bowling

#go white boy go #from melbourne (that boy either grew up in melb or perth you CANNOT tell me otherwise). blond. almost became ordained and became a world #renowned surgeon instead.#sees his deeply emotionally unavailable ex-mentor as a father figure. whom his girlfriend has fucked before and will maybe fuck again.#[cameron love of my life]#good enough at bowling that he wears a special fancy bowling glove to idk make his fingers more aerodynamic.#did i mention blond #dr firstname chase is there anything not iconic and also deeply amusing about you #wait fuck what is his first name #ROBERT #robert chase #house md #hatecrimes md #words of wyrm

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sun-catcher2k · 27 days ago

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