Foreigner from South America escapes from detention

[yanpa]

Tokyo keepers catch fugitive Penguin 337

A young penguin which escaped from a Tokyo aquarium has been caught after more than two months on the loose in the Japanese capital.

The Humboldt penguin scaled a wall and slipped though a fence at the Tokyo Sea Life Park in March.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-18202053

Tokyo-ites can sleep soundly in their futons tonight.

[Samurai_Jerk]

Japan's runaway penguin suffering from pink-eye

A plucky penguin that was recaptured last week after nearly three months at large in the polluted waters of Tokyo Bay has conjunctivitis, an aquarium official said Monday.

The Humboldt penguin, one of 135 kept at Tokyo Sea Life Park, was taken back into captivity after 82 days of freedom following a breakout that made global headlines and garnered it a following around the world.

On Friday, the day after its adventure came to an end, the bird "was diagnosed by a veterinarian as having conjunctivitis, so we have kept it in a room separate from the rest of our penguins", said aquarium official Takashi Sugino.

[Coligny]

Japan's runaway penguin suffering from pink-eye

So we can assume he spend too much time in them Tokyo'z redlightz districtz...

[Taro Toporific]

(Warning: The link below contains a LOUD, obnoxious, auto-starting, advertising video.)

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Rogue Penguins Break Out of Zoo Yet Again
ABC News | Aug 21, 2012
Some pesky penguins in the Japanese city of Suzaka are acting like characters in a “Madagascar” movie and are giving zookeepers quite the headache with their repeated attempts to break free. A pair of 3-month old chicks from Suzaka Zoo first escaped earlier this month by jumping off a slide. Zookeepers responded by attaching boards to the foot of the slide, but two days later another chick got out, by crawling under the fence, according to Japanese media reports. Keepers responded a second time, by sealing off the bottom of the fence...more...

[yanpa]

Finally a replacement for the tired, cliched idom "closing the stable door after the horse has bolted": "sealing off the bottom of the fence after the penguin escaped".