[ Like Luke, Agnès wasn't inclined to get much closer to the animals - if they were meant to be out mingling with people, the barrier wouldn't be there, right? ]

Well.. I certainly don't know any royals that are quite so ... um... [ Obnoxious? ] Insistently loud? [ That'll do. ]

Although royals don't generally fly, unless it's aboard an airship, and these ones don't fly at all, I think. Maybe that's where the comparison is from?

[ She paused to study one of the plaques. ]

It says there's one called an 'Emperor Penguin' but ... I'm not sure which one that is. Maybe it's not mingling with the others yet? [ But, ultimately she was there with you Luke - she doesn't get the comparison. ]