A Desperately Needed Awww

Today many of us are sad and feeling more frustrated than usual. Please allow this to give us some much needed distraction.

A bald baby penguin who was abandoned at birth has been accepted back into his family thanks to the nurturing intervention of staff at an aquarium in China.

The baby bird is completely featherless and was rejected by its family following its birth in Liaoning Province of China last month.

"Its parents kicked it out from time to time, or even left it on the icy ground to let it die," a keeper at the aquarium said.

Once properly diagnosed, the penguin put on weight and developed feathers.  He's as cute without them as he was afterwards, at least in my book.