Penguin Knights, Primate Rights

Norway knighted a penguin this week. Fortunately for Nils Olav, the honoree, Mother Nature already bestowed him with formalwear appropriate to the occasion. Sir Nils, who lives at the Edinburgh Zoo in Scotland, apparently earned the title because of his service as the honorary mascot of the Norwegian King's Guard. I don't fully understand why and how a Scottish penguin became the mascot for the Norwegian Army, but I'm happy for him. If nothing else, he gets a break from his usual captive routine to review the guardsmen when they visit Scotland. I suspect, though, that he'd rather march with wild penguins than uniformed...

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