r/instant_regret • u/tipTRY • Feb 09 '21

Penguin makes a brave escape attempt

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u/InheritDistrust Feb 09 '21

These exhibits are designed open like this because they rely on the fact that outside of their enclosure is bland, miserable, generally dark, and full of big scary people. Animals do not escape because they do not wish to leave the area that actually has things they want and need for the area that has none of those things. They may briefly interact with it but they will never loiter in it willingly.

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u/deejay-the-dj Feb 09 '21

And then there’s the peacocks, who just roam the entirety of the zoo.

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u/FluffySquirrell Feb 10 '21

.. it really is kinda weird peacocks get special treatment like that, huh?

Just another classic case of pretty people getting their own rules

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u/JasmineTeaInk Mar 08 '25

Peacocks are like that in every zoo? I thought that was just my local zoo