Penguins Refuse to Eat Cheaper Fish After Aquarium Cut Cost to Fight Inflation
Soaring inflation and the rising cost of living have forced millions around the world to tighten their purse strings. In Japan, that toll has even trickled down to penguins.
At Hakone-en Aquarium in the Kanagawa prefecture south of Tokyo, zookeepers are buying their animals cheaper food to cut costs. Instead of being offered the usual fatty aji (Japanese horse mackerel), penguins and otters have been feeding on saba—a slimy, less expensive protein—since May.
Some of the animals refuse to eat the cheaper food. While some peck at it gingerly, others flat out turn their beaks up at it.
“Even if they’ll take it in their beaks, they’ll just spit it out,” Hiroki Shimamoto, the head zookeeper at Hakone-en, told VICE World News.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/3adqzk/penguins-refuse-to-eat-inflation-japan
"We have standards, you know."
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Seriously, that's hilarious. "We have standards, you know." 
Who knew penguins were snobs?
Next they'll demand Grey Poupon 
is Mammals & Birds Keeper at Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha. She loves penguins and always has funny stories to tell about them and their antics.
