Thinning the Population at the Zoo

Whist driving this week I saw what looked like a squished penguin. Or, to be perfectly accurate, half a squished penguin.

There have been a lot of dead skunks along the free way recently, and they do have the same color scheme. (No, this isn't the beginning of an elaborate "what's black and white and red all over" joke.) But it really looked like this particular 2 dimensional creature had flippers. And a beak.

I realize this doesn't make a lot of sense. It's not like a penguin could get tired of flying and land for a short but ill placed nap on the freeway. There's no water on the freeway for a penguin to swim itself through. And even if the penguin escaped from a zoo someplace, it's highly unlikely that it would have made it across 3 lanes of traffic only to get killed on the left side of the left lane. I mean, one more step and he would have been a happy and successful median penguin.

And as we all know, median penguins are invincible. (I think there is a pub quiz name in here someplace.)