[ Thanks to Rakesh for this link. ]
“Avian happiness not a matter of black and white.”
“Outraged animal rights advocates squared off Thursday with a
software company exhibiting a pair of performing penguins — acting
as “Mel the really cool penguin” — on the floor of the San Jose
McEnery Convention Center.”
“Magic Software Enterprises Inc., an Israeli-based maker of
development software, hired the two penguins for hourly shows at
its convention booth at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo, a
gathering this week of customers and developers of the Linux
operating system.”
“Performing exotic animals are controversial, and some people
attending the convention were incensed by the spectacle of
performing birds.”