Penguin Pandemonium

“What’s so funny?” said Rory.

“It’s not a gun, dummy. It’s a camera,” said Muriel, posing in front of it. “Smile, we’re on Penguin Cam. Preen yourself, Bloop, you look like you lost in a pillow fight.”

“How do you know it’s a camera?” said Rory.

Muriel looked at him as if he was completely thick.

“Radio Brown Bear, Orson and Ursie, told us. They heard the zookeeper talking to Savannah about it while we were all watching you screw things up at Paulie’s.”

Rory stood up and stared at the weird contraption overhanging the enclosure. Now that he’d studied it properly, he could see that it had a lens similar to the ones visitors used to point at him when he was doing stunts. He scratched his head with his foot and tried to make sense of it.

“Penguin Cam? What on earth is that? What does it do?” wondered Blue out loud. Muriel stopped posing with Hatty and Brenda and pulled a face.

“Oh my cod, she doesn’t even know what Penguin Cam is,” she snickered. “You really need to get with the programme, Bloop.”

Blue screwed up her beak and glared at her.