National Penguin Day is here, a day when our flightless, feathered friends finally get the attention they deserve. While we should remember that penguins around the southern hemisphere are facing real issues with their habitats and climate change, let's not forget how very, very adorable they are.
Compiled just for you, here are a selection of penguins being really cute. Enjoy them, cherish them, celebrate this day for them. It's a Monday anyway, what were you really going to do?
Two Adelie penguins stand atop a block of melting ice on a rocky shoreline at Cape Denison, Commonwealth Bay, in East AntarcticaReuters
Humboldt penguins swim in their pool during the stock take at London ZooReuters
An Adelie penguin is pictured at Cape Denison, Commonwealth Bay, East AntarcticaReuters
A young king penguin stands in an enclosure at Zurich's ZooReuters
One of eight penguin chicks makes its way to the ocean after being released by Taronga Zoo staff at Long Reef, SydneyReuters
Tomas, a lost Humboldt penguin, walks at the headquarters of the police Salvage Unit in Chorrillos, before it is transferred to a penguin colony on San Lorenzo IslandReuters
Two-day-old baby Humboldt penguin 'Wotsit' is weighed at the penguin enclosure at Chester ZooGetty
View of Gentoo penguins (Pygoscelis Papua) at the Yankee Harbour in the South Shetland Islands, AntarcticaGetty
Chinstrap penguins (Pygoscelis Antarctica) are pictured in Orne Harbour in the western Antarctic peninsulaGetty
Gentoo penguins waddle over the rocks in Cuverville Island, in the western Antarctic peninsulaGetty
