Look at this little guy chasing a zookeeper at the at Matsue Vogel Aviary Park in southern Japan. Keep on running if you want, zoo guy, but you will not escape this tiny penguin.

The weather in the UK, typically abysmal, has been even worse recently with torrential rain, forceful gale winds and massive waves pounding at the coastal areas. And it's gotten so bad that one town's zoo animals are on antidepressants.

Earth is a vast and incredible place, especially when a falcon unknowingly picks up a camera disguised as an egg and then flies over a rockhopper penguin colony.

Scientists have counted almost 600,000 emperor penguins in Antarctica — that's almost twice as many as they'd previously thought. Satellite technology gave a more accurate estimate, but the vast amount of penguin crap played a significant role.

Here's a video of two penguins — Pete and Penny — chilling in first class on a flight from Atlanta to New York, where they were guests at the premiere of Discovery Channel's documentary Frozen Planet. I'm thinking there are two joke possibilities here: something about "flightless birds" and something about how of…

It was Joe Biden in a tuxedo. Kidding! It was an African blackfooted penguin, and it was hanging out at the Kentucky State Senate during a vote about the local aquarium it calls home. Senate President David Williams reported interrupted a colleague's speech to announce, "The penguin... just defecated on the floor."

Remember Pedro and Buddy, the gay penguin couple that the Toronto Zoo was going to separate so they could mate and then reunite? Well, it looks like their love won't last being shoved in the closet by the zookeepers. This is so so sad.

The gay hating zookeepers at the Toronto Zoo are about to do something awful. They're going to break up a pair of male penguins, Buddy and his Latin lover Pedro, and make them have sex with women. How could they do that?

Next week, the BBC will debut a series about animal life in the Arctic and Antarctic called Frozen Planet. In this preview clip, male members of an Adelie penguin colony in Antarctica gather stones to build nests while competing for lady penguins in the process. But as you'll see, not all of them do it honestly.

Remember that emperor penguin that somehow turned up on the shores of New Zealand after getting lost off the coast of Antarctica? Besides giving it the least original name of all time (Happy Feet? Seriously?), conservasionists set the penguin free on September 4, and were monitoring its progress with a satellite…

We know. We know! Cutesy internet baby animal bullshit is just the worst. Worse even than email signatures with inspirational quotes! What are we, your aunt? And yet we are helpless in the face of this baby penguin being tickled. You watch it, and tell us that you wouldn't have posted it, too.

I realize we have a lot on our worrying plates, between all the tsunamis and Qaddaffis dominating the news these days—but if I could just momentarily direct your hopelessness in the direction of the adorable, oil-soaked rockhopper penguins above, I'd be much obliged. These faces are the innocent victims of yet another…

Who could ever get enough of these monster-flipping penguins on this monkey-flying plane? Probably no one, because they are so darn cute... and aren't venomous.

Take a picturesque location—Boulders Beach in South Africa, in this case—a brave little penguin, and a dash of suspenseful buildup, all set to Vangelis' "Chariots of Fire," and what do you get? You get one awesome animal video!

Watch a seal act like a drama queen as a penguin unexpectedly walks over it. Now that's the most creative way to disturb someone's nap. Thankfully the penguin lives to tell the tale.

Not entirely sure if this penguin is on drugs or is just happy to be alive, but either way it's adorable.

For humans, puddles are an afterthought. On the other hand, for penguins and their stubby legs, it's a body of water too shallow and narrow to swim across, yet still not assuredly leap-able. Decisions, decisions. Oh wait, it's a puddle.

[It's too early for Christmas, but we can make an except for the Everland Zoo in South Korea, because it's never too early for penguins dressed in Santa and reindeer costumes. Click through for more. Images via Getty.]

King Penguin Lala lives in domestic bliss with a family in Japan, and particularly enjoys going grocery shopping for them. A penguin personal shopper?! Does he also make trips to the bank and/or DMV?