A penguin that escaped from a Japanese aquarium in March is apparently thriving in Tokyo Bay, according to news reports from Japan.
The fugitive bird, known as Penguin 337, somehow scaled a 13-foot-high wall and then got through a barbed-wire fence to get into the bay.
Officials from Tokyo Sea Life Park feared the 1-year-old Humbolt penguin would not survive in the waters of the bay, busy with marine traffic headed for densely populated Tokyo.
But apparently 337 is making meals of small fish in the bay and finding some place to rest onshore at night, park officials said, according to a Reuters.
"It didn't look like it has gotten thinner over the past two months, or been without food. It doesn't seem to be any weaker. So it looks as if it's been living quite happily in the middle of Tokyo Bay," Kazuhiro Sakamoto, deputy director of the park, told Reuters.
The penguin was filmed by a Japanese coast guard patrol craft on May 7, but the crew was unable to catch it.
a penguin climbed a wall? yeah right, sounds like someones covering for those crazy Brits. Looks like they are at it again!
i thought they were aussies? either way, bravo drunk men with accents! 😉
Freedom!!!
And it took both wings to achieve it.
Is this penguin named "Skipper" by any chance?
good for him GOO 337!
Madagascar penguins outsourcing their specific set of skills, obviously.
And this is relative or pertinent to the discussion...how?
You belong on the moon colony with Gingrich
And in the midst of her blossoming writing career, while chastising the President for listening to his daughters, she still found time to rescue adorable "Lee" from the prison in which it was detained.
He's just Fighting Crime..Leave him alone..
That IS very funny.
Nice one.
He or she was like, 'Get me outta here! These funny looking things staring at me all day are creeping me out!"
He's a "Mobster Peguin"..
Mobster Penguin..
I'm glad the penguin is free and hope it is safe. It did not have to yell its evolutionist propaganda at people after it was free though.
Sounds to me like The Joker helped The Penguin escape – Holy dastardly deeds Batman!
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