The man who loved marine mammals

There was a marine biologist, named Dr. Panglos, who loved marine mammals. (When I say he loved marine mammals though, I’m not talking about having sex with dolphins; he just loved to study them). He spent his time trying to feed and protect his beloved creatures of the sea. One day, in a fit of inventive genius, he came up with a serum that would make them live forever!


Of course he was ecstatic. But he soon realised that, in order to mass produce this serum, he would need large amounts of a certain compound that was only found in nature in the metabolism of a rare South American myna bird. Carried away by his love for marine mammals, however, he decided that he would go to the zoo and steal one of these birds.


As he was arriving at the zoo an elderly lion was escaping from its cage. The Lion’s name was Leo, which wasn’t too original of a name for a lion if you ask me, but it’s probably not important to the story. Anyway, the zoo keepers were alarmed and immediately began combing the zoo for the escaped animal, unaware that it had simply lain down on the sidewalk and had gone to sleep since it was Leo’s regular naptime anyway.


Meanwhile, the marine biologist arrived at the zoo and stole his bird. He was so excited by the prospect of helping his dolphins that he stepped absent-mindedly over the sleeping lion on his way back to his car. Immediately, 15 policemen converged on him and arrested him.

His crime? Transporting a myna across a staid lion for immortal porpoises.

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I've been thinking about this joke a lot because you guys keep posting similar jokes, but I knew I couldn't tell it properly, so [I plagiarized.](http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/forums/viewthread/1345/)

^^^For ^^^non-english ^^^speakers, ^^^it's ^^^a ^^^play ^^^on ^^^"Transporting ^^^a ^^^minor ^^^across ^^^state ^^^lines ^^^for ^^^immoral ^^^purposes.