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https://medium.com/@mombot/the-life-of-grape-kun-96a57d4a4364
>On Friday October 13th, Tobu Zoo in Saitama Japan announced via Twitter that Grape-kun the Humboldt penguin had passed away.
>Grape-kun lived at Hamura Animal Park for the first ten years of his life, and eventually became mates with a female penguin named Midori.
>Grape-kun and Midori never saw their chick, and the sudden loss may have caused their bond to deteriorate.
>Grape-kun had to be removed from the enclosure for medical treatment. During his absence, Midori began mating with a much younger male penguin named Denka.
>Grape-kun himself became estranged from the flock while Midori and Denka were accepted.
>Grape-kun stopped eating during this time.
>Midori and Denka continued to mate and eventually hatched a chick named Beer. Beer also lived in the same enclosure as Grape-kun.
>In May of 2017, Tobu Zoo and the anime show Kemono Friends held a special collaboration event. Fifty cardboard cutouts depicting the anthropomorphized animal characters from the show were placed at different locations throughout Tobu Zoo. Among the cutours was a Humboldt penguin character named Hululu, which was placed right in the middle of Grape-kuns enclosure.
>Grape-kun would try to climb onto the cardboard cutouts rocky platform in order to stand next to it, and refused to leave its side. Zookeepers had a difficult time getting Grape-kun to separate from Hululu long enough to eat, but they were happy to find that his appetite had returned.
>Animal behavior specialists were puzzled by Grape-kuns behavior, and could not decisively conclude whether or not he truly loved the Hululu cutout or not, but most agreed that Grape-kun felt a special attachment to it.
>by the evening of October 11th Grape-kun could no longer stand on his own and required an intravenous drip. On the afternoon of October 12th, he quietly passed away.
>On Friday October 13th, Tobu Zoo in Saitama Japan announced via Twitter that Grape-kun the Humboldt penguin had passed away.
>Grape-kun lived at Hamura Animal Park for the first ten years of his life, and eventually became mates with a female penguin named Midori.
>Grape-kun and Midori never saw their chick, and the sudden loss may have caused their bond to deteriorate.
>Grape-kun had to be removed from the enclosure for medical treatment. During his absence, Midori began mating with a much younger male penguin named Denka.
>Grape-kun himself became estranged from the flock while Midori and Denka were accepted.
>Grape-kun stopped eating during this time.
>Midori and Denka continued to mate and eventually hatched a chick named Beer. Beer also lived in the same enclosure as Grape-kun.
>In May of 2017, Tobu Zoo and the anime show Kemono Friends held a special collaboration event. Fifty cardboard cutouts depicting the anthropomorphized animal characters from the show were placed at different locations throughout Tobu Zoo. Among the cutours was a Humboldt penguin character named Hululu, which was placed right in the middle of Grape-kuns enclosure.
>Grape-kun would try to climb onto the cardboard cutouts rocky platform in order to stand next to it, and refused to leave its side. Zookeepers had a difficult time getting Grape-kun to separate from Hululu long enough to eat, but they were happy to find that his appetite had returned.
>Animal behavior specialists were puzzled by Grape-kuns behavior, and could not decisively conclude whether or not he truly loved the Hululu cutout or not, but most agreed that Grape-kun felt a special attachment to it.
>by the evening of October 11th Grape-kun could no longer stand on his own and required an intravenous drip. On the afternoon of October 12th, he quietly passed away.
