Cute penguins play iPad game, Internet swoons

Kids love their iPads. Newson and Jeremy are no exception.

The juvenile Magellanic penguins at the June Keyes Penguin Exhibit of the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, California, were recently given an old iPad, loaded with an app designed for cats, to keep them entertained.

It worked.

"Take an old obsolete iPad. Load up a cat game app. Place in front of a couple of young curious penguins and you have the recipe for a fun time for these aquatic birds and a pretty neat video," aquarium officials wrote on YouTube.

"Still too young to think about mating and with most of the other penguins busy trying to impress the opposite sex these young birds are feeling a bit left out of all the excitement," wrote the aquarium's Hugh Ryono of the young penguins.

Aquarium aviculturalist Sara suggested using the iPad's Game for Cats app as penguin entertainment.

"Sure enough when Jeremy and Newsom noticed the iPad in the exhibit they both waddled on over. Jeremy was the first to try it out but Newsom was the one that really got into it. Stalking the virtual mouse intently he tried to pick it up repeatedly with his beak. Newsom especially seemed to like the squeak that the mouse made when he put his beak on the virtual critter. The mouse was self reinforcing for this penguin. Newsom set the penguin high score of 1600 for the game," wrote Ryono.