Penguins Swim in Mock Migration to Nowhere
Jan 17, 11:15 AM (ET)
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The penguins at the San Francisco Zoo are swimming around in circles for hours at a time because they have been bamboozled by six new birds into performing a mock migration, officials say.
The marathon began late last month when the newcomers joined the colony, leaving the zoo's penguin keeper Jane Tollini scratching her head as to how the birds from an Ohio theme park, convinced the 46 others to start in with the frenzied swimming.
They are so determined even a lack of water cannot keep the birds from the 130-feet-long, 40-feet-wide pool. When zoo keepers first drained the pool for cleaning, the penguins simply jumped in and walked around the bottom.