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Kyoto Aquarium Made A Flowchart To Keep Track Of Its Penguins’ Messy Relationship Drama

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July 13, 2020
Penguin relationship flowchart from Kyoto Aquarium.

Alana is the staff writer on AWOL who thinks the…

Penguins, with their little wings and their fluffy white bellies and the way they waddle around, are cute. But they’re also, it seems, messier than the contestants on an Australian reality TV dating show, which we know thanks to Kyoto Aquarium’s penguin relationship flowchart.

The chart, which Twitter user @OliverJia1014 shared last week, was created by the aquarium to show “the complicated romantic relationships and breakups between their penguins.”

You don’t need to be able to read the chart to understand there are a whole lot of passionate relationships, sordid affairs and broken hearts going on between the aquarium’s penguin population.

Here’s a high-res version of Kyoto Aquarium’s penguin relationship flowchart.

Penguin relationship flowchart from Kyoto Aquarium.

A helpful legend on the chart contains five symbols, including a love heart, a broken heart, and a heart with a question mark next to it.

The internet lost its collective mind over these penguin thots.

These two penguins appear to like each other but haven’t admitted it yet. Big mood.

After gifting us with the penguin relationship flowchart, @OliverJia1014 pointed out that penguins aren’t always as wholesome as they seem. They’re “known to be vicious animals who cheat on their partners and steal other’s children.”

The National Aquarium of New Zealand also take great delight in shaming their naughty penguins, of which there are many.

Penguins. Not as cute as they’d like us to think.

(Lead image: Derek Oyen / Unsplash & Kyoto Aquarium)

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Alana is the staff writer on AWOL who thinks the best way to travel is by taking spontaneous detours and stopping at every local bakery to try the cakes. She writes a lot about Australian TV, Big Things, cursed food, and theme parks. You can follow her on Instagram @alana.dotcom. It’s mostly dogs she meets along the way.

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