Penguins laughing will make you explode with cute

[Wiccan_Child]

YouTube - Cookie the Little Penguin at the Cincinnati Zoo

SO CUTE

But a question to our resident biologists: why do penguins laugh? Is it laughter, or some other mechanism? And why would they enjoy being tickled? Or is it actually in agonising pain...

 

[Nostromo]

I'm guessing you found Freddy Krueger adorable.

 

[selfinflikted]

I'm guessing you found Freddy Krueger adorable.

Well, aside from maybe the first film, he certainly wasn't scary.

 

[pgp_protector]

Sorry, didn't explode with cute.

 

[Wiccan_Child]

Sorry, didn't explode with cute.

Well... OK then.

 

[TerranceL]

Cute.

 

[SharpSolaris]

Funny video. Thanks.
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Penguins are able to express the voice of emotion:

1. song "seduction" (fast, and in the end - long note);
2. summoning cry (as pipe);
3. cry of horror;
4. cry of anger;
5. cry of approval and pleasure (cluck);

In this case, is a cry pleasure. Penguin not enjoy tickled. Just penguins enjoy that its caress.

 

[Wiccan_Child]

Funny video. Thanks.

I'm glad someone else enjoyed it!

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Penguins are able to express the voice of emotion:

1. song "seduction" (fast, and in the end - long note);
2. summoning cry (as pipe);
3. cry of horror;
4. cry of anger;
5. cry of approval and pleasure (cluck);

In this case, is a cry pleasure. Penguin not enjoy tickled. Just penguins enjoy that its caress.

I know birds are famous for their vocalisations (as is everyone else, probably ), but is this specific to penguins? Or do all birds have, say, a 'cluck' that signifies approval and pleasure?

 

[Upisoft]

BOOM!!!

Not exactly.

 

[SharpSolaris]

Not quite. The Birds have different "languages​​", "adverb" and even "accents". Even a single species has different dialects. Very different melody, rhythm...
But something similar the sound have the birds ocean (especially Procellariiformes): albatrosses, petrels, etc...

 

[TemperateSeaIsland]

Maybe it's whinning because it wants to be fed?

Still...Cute.

 

[EphesiaNZ]

Saw this a few days ago and it's obviously Tux, the Linux mascot, laughing at all those Windows users who give over lots of money in order to slow their computers down with viruses etc.

 

[Gracchus]

Sorry, didn't explode with cute.

I didn't even vomit, which is my normal reaction to "cute".

 

[Upisoft]

I didn't even vomit, which is my normal reaction to "cute".

So, if you have pet it must necessarily be ugly and disgusting?

Sad, sad.

 

[Rajni]

YouTube - Cookie the Little Penguin at the Cincinnati Zoo

So adorable!!!!

 

[Naraoia]

Saw this a few days ago and it's obviously Tux, the Linux mascot, laughing at all those Windows users who give over lots of money in order to slow their computers down with viruses etc.

Tux can laugh when Linux becomes able to handle manual duplex printing

 

[Gracchus]

So, if you have pet it must necessarily be ugly and disgusting?

Sad, sad.

A pet is an animal enslaved for the gratification of human ego. I don't have one nor would I have one. There may be good excuses for exploiting animals for economic reasons, but just for ego gratification?
That, I find disgusting.

 

[Rajni]

A pet is an animal enslaved for the gratification of human ego. I don't have one nor would I have one. There may be good excuses for exploiting animals for economic reasons, but just for ego gratification?
That, I find disgusting.

Nah, pets are animals adopted for the extending of a loving family. Posting opinions in online forums, now that's for ego gratification!

 

[Naraoia]

A pet is an animal enslaved for the gratification of human ego.

Tell that to cats

 

[Upisoft]

Tell that to cats

I feel enslaved to my cat, not vice versa. He is so lazy he didn't even learn to open the doors like normal cats do. I have to go to buy him food and generally do things that please him. All that so he will be able to live 14 years for now (10 more than the average outdoor cat).
Also he is now trying to push my keyboard away. Looks like he is jealous that I don't spend 100% of my time for him.