Keepers from a Tokyo aquarium are working to find a that escaped after apparently scaling the wall of its enclosure. The bird has since been spotted in the nearby Kyu-Edo river, but managed to evade officials attempting to capture it. “It’s a bit of a struggle to catch it when it is swimming, because it swims at a tremendous speed,” Takashi Sugino, an official at Tokyo Sea Life Park, . “We are hoping to catch it when it climbs up on land to sleep.” Even if it does make it to the sea, the bird will have a long way to go before it can get home: Humboldt penguins are native to South America’s Pacific coast.
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