JAPAN - Fugitive penguin No.337 has been sighted in Tokyo Bay two months after escaping from Tokyo Sea Life Park.
Video footage taken by Japan's Coast Guard earlier in May shows the apparently healthy Humboldt penguin frolicking in the water.
Kazuhiro Sakamoto, the park's deputy director, identified the penguin on the video as No.337.
"You can see it's got the same ring around its flipper and identical facial patterns," he told Reuters.
Although if it wasn't No.337 then one might wonder how many escaped penguins there are in Tokyo ...
Sakamoto said that the adventurous penguin didn't look like it had lost any weight. "So it looks as if it's been living quite happily in the middle of Tokyo Bay."
Although the park had received hundreds of reports of sightings of No.337 after its escape, only about 30 of the reports were thought to be genuine.
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Fugitive penguin 337 spotted alive in Tokyo Bay, Reuters, 16 May 2012
Video footage taken by Japan's Coast Guard earlier in May shows the apparently healthy Humboldt penguin frolicking in the water.
Kazuhiro Sakamoto, the park's deputy director, identified the penguin on the video as No.337.
"You can see it's got the same ring around its flipper and identical facial patterns," he told Reuters.
Although if it wasn't No.337 then one might wonder how many escaped penguins there are in Tokyo ...
Sakamoto said that the adventurous penguin didn't look like it had lost any weight. "So it looks as if it's been living quite happily in the middle of Tokyo Bay."
Although the park had received hundreds of reports of sightings of No.337 after its escape, only about 30 of the reports were thought to be genuine.
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Source
Fugitive penguin 337 spotted alive in Tokyo Bay, Reuters, 16 May 2012
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