Could The Flow Charts Below,

be the start of a new television reality series?

 featuring broken hearts, adultery, and worse still, egg stealing! Did I mention the flow charts were all about Penguins? Above the Kyoto Aqarium’s 2020 Penguin Relationship Flowchart,

  the birds as they waddle around and protect their eggs, are often thought of as cute, cuddly and romantic, but those who observe them for extended periods know they have a dark side, two aquariums in Japan, Kyoto Aquarium and Sumida Aquarium, keep obsessive tabs on their penguins and maintain an updated flowchart that visualizes all their penguin drama, above the infamous Tera,who is known as a heart breaker and has dumped at least 6 different males at the Kyoto Aquarium, which might not sound serious, but penguins who are getting over a break-up will often refuse to eat!

 above the Sumida Aqarium’s 2020 Penguin Relationship Flowchart,

 above a detail with human interaction at the Kyoto Aquarium,

Kyoto-based researcher Oliver Jia points out, penguin drama can include serious crushes and heartbreaks but also adultery and egg-stealing. And these Japanese aquariums have it all charted in a flowchart that can be studied for hours,the aquariums keep high-resolution versions of each. Here are the links for the Kyoto Aquarium and the one for Tokyo’s Sumida Aquarium. According to the aquarium’s caretakers, the penguin’s romantic escapades are fairly easy to observe, for example, wing-flapping is a sign of affection and couples can be seen grooming each other, I have to say it, I am not a fan of reality shows, but this I think I could watch, and there was me thinking penguins were so cute!