In the middle of New York City there is a great big park called Central Park
. Children love to play there. It has a toy-boat pond where they can sail
their boats. It has a carousel to ride on in the summer and an ice rink to
skate on in the winter
Best of all, it has its very own zoo. Every day families of all kinds go to
visit the animals that live there.
But children and their parents aren’t the only families at the zoo. The
animals make families of their own. There are red panda bear failies, with
mothers and fathers and furry red panda bear cubs. There are monkey dads and
monkey moms raising noisy monkey babies. There are toad families, and
toucan families, and cotton-top tamarin families too.
And in the penguin house there are penguin families.
Every year at the very same time, the girl penguins start noticing the boy
penguins. And the boy penguins start noticing the girls. When the right girl
and the right boy find each other, they become a couple.
Two penguins in the penguin house were a little bit different. One was named
Roy, and the other was named Silo. Roy and Silo were both boys. But they
did everything together.
They bowed to each other.
And waked together.
They sang to each other.
And swam together.
Where Roy went, Silo went too.
They didn’t spend much time with the girl penguins, and the girl penguins
didn’t spend much time with them. Instead, Roy and Silo wound their necks
around each other. Their keeper Mr. Gramay noticed the two penguins and
thought to himself, “they must be in love”
Roy and Silo watched how the other penguins made a home. So they built a
nest of stone for themselves. Every night Roy and Silo slept there together,
just like the other penguin couples.
And every morning Roy and Silo woke up together. But one day Roy and Silo
saw that the other Couples do something they could not.
The mama penguin would lay an egg. She and the papa penguin would take turns
keeping the egg warm until finally, it would hatch. And then there would be
a baby penguin.
Roy and Silo had no egg to sit on and keep warm. They had no baby chick to
feed and cuddle and love. Their nest was nice, but it was a little lonely.
One day Roy found something that looked like what other penguins were
hatching and he brought it to their nest.
It was only a rock,
But silo carefully sat on it.
And sat…
And sat…
When silo got sleey, he slept. And when silo was done sleeping and sitting,
he swam and Roy sat. Day after day Silo and Roy sat on the rock.
But nothing happened.
(LZ看到这里的时候居然心酸的落泪了。。。)