Glad the Globe is so closely monitoring, aren't you?
"Lost penguin improves after surgery" by Associated Press / June 28, 2011
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — New Zealand’s favorite penguin visitor is more lively and eating fish after undergoing endoscopic surgery yesterday to remove some of the beach sand and twigs it had swallowed, apparently mistaking it for snow.
Full recovery for the young emperor penguin — affectionately dubbed Happy Feet — may take months, and officials are unsure when or how it could return home to the Antarctic, about 2,000 miles away....
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Also see: Penguin Swims Alphabet
