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Penguin manages to escape from Tokyo by swimming at “tremendous speed” [shorties]

Mihai Andrei by Mihai Andrei
March 6, 2012
in Animals
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Be on the look out for a one year old Humboldt escaped from the Tokyo Sea Life park; the young penguin was caught speeding in the Kyu-Edo River headed towards Tokyo Bay.

But wait, things get even better: the penguin apparently escaped by climbing a wall, though how a penguin could climb a wall is beyond me. Maybe there is some truth to those Madagascar ninja-penguins after all. Apparently, officials have tried to capture the penguin, but so far he has eluded them by ‘swimming at tremendous speeds’.

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Humboldt penguins are declining fast, mostly due to the global warming of waters and reduced food supply.

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Andrei's background is in geophysics, and he's been fascinated by it ever since he was a child. Feeling that there is a gap between scientists and the general audience, he started ZME Science -- and the results are what you see today.

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