Olivia Rodrigo Has the Sweetest Meetup with Pesto the Precious Penguin
Talk about a close encounter of the cute kind, pop star Olivia Rodrigo got to meet Sea Life Melbourne's adorable and super famous penguin named Pesto at a stop on her GUTS world tour.
The Get Him Back singer was performing for at Melbourne’s Rod Laver Arena when she took the time to meet this chonky, fluffy cutie and shared the photos to her Instagram stories.
Rodrigo isn't Pesto's first famous fan, because on September 27, singer Katy Perry visited the Melbourne Aquarium in Australia and met viral sensation Penguin too.
The Sea Life Aquarium in Melbourne, Australia invited Perry with a cute Instagram video asking the Teenage Dream singer to swing by when she was in town promoting her '143: I Love You More' album and she did just that, blowing bubbles for sweet Pesto and meeting his keepers.
Pesto Will Look Like Other Penguins Soon Enough
Pesto will lose his fluffy feathers soon enough.
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Pesto is a 10-month-old king penguin and weighs about 46 pounds. He is the biggest chick the aquarium has ever seen and is even bigger than his parents! The Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium webpage explains, "At just nine months old, Pesto tips the scales at a whopping 21kg, thanks to his hearty appetite of 25 fish a day. He’s officially the largest chick SEA LIFE Melbourne has ever seen, making him a huge hit with guests and fans around the world.
From tender moments with parents Hudson and Tango to his adorable waddles into the colony, Pesto has been a true crowd-pleaser."
Sweet Pesto will lose his fluffy down when he starts to molt, and then he will resemble the adult penguin seen in the image above.
One sweet fact about King penguins? King penguins are known as "serial monogamists." meaning that each year they have only one mate they breed with and breeding pairs work together to hatch their egg and care for their chick. The following year however, king penguins are unlikely to return to the same partner.
Pesto has quite the following too, and the BBC reports, "
"You name a country, and he has had a mention in the media... there are very few places across the globe that haven't had a bit of Pesto love."
By her metrics, Pesto has reached an audience of about 5 billion and appears to have dethroned Thailand’s adorably erratic baby pygmy hippo as the internet’s favourite animal.
"People are trading him as Bitcoin, which has been unbelievable," Ms Wilson says.
"Move over Moo Deng, basically."
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