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⚠️ this story contains topics as eating disorders, body dysmorphia, low self esteem, negative thinking, perfectionism and obsession. please read at your own risk. ⚠️
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Jinah had clicked into work and was currently counting fish—for what felt like the third time. She had weighed the bucket of dead, frozen fish, but somehow it seemed way too little. Taking out her walkie-talkie, she pressed a button and held it to her mouth.
"Jinah here" she spoke, "did we get a new order of fish yet? For some reason the bucket for the emperor penguins is way too little." Jinah waited for an answer and her senior answered. "Hi Jinah, there was a delay in the order. The new fish will only arrive this afternoon. The emperors have to eat what we have" the woman answered and Jinah sighed. "Got it, thanks" she answered, clicking the walkie onto her belt and put the dead fish back in her bucket.
After filling the bucket and getting rid of her gloves, she left the staff room by the penguin enclosure. Her eyes moved over to the seals. A few guests were looking at the newly born baby seal that was bouncing up and down and watching her mother swim in the water.
Fun fact: baby seals can't swim. They have to learn it before they jump into the nice cold and fresh water!
The new zookeeper wasn't there yet. She quickly shook her head and walked to the back door of the penguin enclosure. She heard the penguins honk once she sat foot in the enclosure some of the birds waddled over to her.
"Good morning guys!", Jinah cheered and all her worries from eating breakfast disappeared. She waved at the penguins and rustled with the bucket in her hands. "Ready for breakfast?", she asked when a tall male penguin named Emmanuel poked her leg with his beak.
"Slowly, Emmanuel" Jinah laughed and waited for some of the younger emperors to make their way over to her. Jinah saw some of the zoo guests walk over to the penguin enclosure, as Jinah was making quiet a commotion with the animals.
She started throwing the fish and the older penguins jumped after them, slowly eating their breakfast. She hand-fed a few of the babies and once her bucket was empty, she quickly scanned the enclosure.
It was a bit dirty, so she had to clean it. The cleaning was quickly done and once that was finished it was time for Jinah's favorite part of the day: walking the penguins.
The Seoul Zoo had a funny little thing going on, where one of the penguins was allowed to walk around the zoo with their zookeeper to look at the other animals or attract more people to come to the penguin enclosure.
Jinah looked at her list and saw that it was Minho's time for a walk. Minho was actually a female emperor but the vet did a mistake when saying the gender, so the female penguin was named after the famous Korean actor Lee Minho.
