Defiant Chick Stays Up Way Past His Bedtime

Defiant Chick Stays Up Way Past His Bedtime

Three sources have confirmed that Scooter, a great crested tern chick from a small island in Sri Lanka, ignored his parents and stayed up long after his 7:30 bedtime.

“He just wouldn’t go to sleep,” says Rich Canberry, a tourist on holiday there at the time. “He was still awake in the early morning when the rest of the neighborhood flew off to work.”

Scooter is expected to crash big time at around 11 am.

Photo by Lalith Ekanayake/National Geographic, via The Animal Blog.