Escaped penguin prompts search
Officials from the Tokyo Sea Life Park are urgently searching for a one-year-old Humbolt penguin that escaped from its harbour-front enclosure. Attempts to recapture it have thus far failed despite considerable effort due to the speed with which the penguin can swim, which has been described as 'tremendous'. It was last spotted swimming in the mouth of the Kyu-Edo River which runs into Tokyo Bay and from there to the Pacific Ocean.
Precisely how the penguin escaped from the enclosure is as yet undetermined. An official of the Park speculated that the bird could have scaled a wall, although they also admitted that "We first noticed the penguin might have fled when the director of a neighbouring zoo e-mailed us Sunday with a photo."
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