The zookeepers who really did p-p-p-pick up a penguin: Colony is moved to new home while work is carried out on their enclosure
The pictures in this article, which profile a number of penguins moving home, are great fun. It explains:
“They are known for completing long marches across the icy Antarctic but these gorgeous Gentoo penguins took it easy for once by hitching free rides with a zookeeper.
The animal is one of 100 penguins at Edinburgh Zoo being moved to temporary new homes at zoos in Belfast, Gloucestershire and Odense in Denmark while a leak in their current home is fixed.
A total of 50 Genkoo penguins are being rehoused with a further 50 leaving the zoo as part of the natural breeding cycle.
Visitors took the opportunity to photograph the departing birds which also include six King Penguins and comprise a third of the zoo’s total colony. Essential maintenance work needs to be carried out on the penguin enclosure pool, which is more than 20 years old.”
I have worked in a number of Council offices where relocation to an exotic location pending refurbishment would have been a very welcome option!