A penguin is trying to find love on an online dating site.
Penguin joins dating site
Spruce, a one-year-old penguin who resides at Weymouth Sea Life Centre in Dorset, is so desperate to find a mate that his handlers have set him up with a profile on dating website Plenty of Fish, where his interests are listed as ''seafood and swimming''.
His carer Sarah Everett told the Dorset Echo: ''It would be nice for Spruce to have another single penguin to spend his time with, rather than his keepers.
''I really want to see Spruce settle down with the right girl and after searches for potential mates at other Sea Life centres proved fruitless I thought it was time to look further afield.''
The decision to create a profile for the lonely penguin came after his handlers noticed all the female penguins in their enclosure were partnered up, leaving poor Spruce on his own.
Spruce's dating profile lists him as a ''single penguin looking for chicks'', and even states his favourite bands are Reel Big Fish and Noah and the Whale.
It also states Spruce is looking for ''a partner for life who I can make some little chicks with, as I'm a family man at heart.''
As of yet, it is unknown whether or not Spruce has managed to find any dates through his online profile.