It was only 3 months ago when we featured an infamous flightless fugitive for Fuzzy Friday, a Japanese Humboldt penguin, otherwise known as Penguin 337, who managed to escape its home at the Tokyo Sea Life Park. The crafty penguin spent a good 82 days enjoying his freedom alluding would be captors while feasting on the fish of the Tokyo Bay only to be finally caught on May 24th, 2012. Well after finally returning the fugitive back to his enclosure at the Tokyo Sea Life Park the good people of Japan sighed with relief, knowing that their peculiar penguin days were done and all was back to normal, or so they thought.
You never can really tell what inspires a penguin to attempt to pull off such a precarious feat as the one so well executed by Penguin 337. Perhaps it was word of 337’s days of living the high life in the Tokyo 
Bay , probably passed from penguin to penguin, until the story of his great adventures reached the perky and oh so impressionable ears of two 3 month old penguin chicks at the Suzaka Zoo in Japan, that impassioned them to make headlines of their own. According to Time.com, the pair of penguin chicks first made waves by using a water slide in their pen to propel themselves to freedom but were discovered later and promptly returned to their enclosure at the zoo. Not to be deterred by the planks installed to prevent them from pulling off the same slide shenanigans, just a few days later one of the chicks decided to find a different route to freedom, managing to push his penguin body through a small space under the fence and out of his pen once again. As you can imagine, the Zookeepers became a little perturbed over the pesky penguins push for freedom but felt confident they would not be dealing with anymore successful escapes from the cheeky chicks after sealing off the second escape route under the fence. However it seems as though the more persistent penguin chick had not given up his plight for freedom and only a few days later surprised Zookeepers when they discovered the tiny chick enjoying some personal penguin time out of his pen once again and in a pond nearby having hopped over the wall of his enclosure earlier that day. At long last the Zookeepers were forced to confine the patiently persistent penguins to an indoor cage until they can figure out a way to contain the hopeful flightless fugitives.
Congratulations you peculiar peppy penguin chicks!! With your perplexing penguin ploys and passionate plight for freedom you have definitely made it clear that with a little patience and persistence there really is no limit to what a penguin can pull off!! It is clear you playful penguins are the perfect pick for this week’s Fuzzy Friday Feature!!
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