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I’m curious where they ended up dropping the little dude off. How far does a boat like that go in “a few hours”?
He did all that work swimming over, but also they’re “highly social” and the article makes it sound like he ended up there by accident. I trust the wildlife experts to have done everything correctly, but it just reads like they took him to the middle of the ocean and made him walk the plank 😄
Gus was an emperor penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri) who made international headlines in 2024 as the first of his species recorded in Australia. Gus’s journey of over 3,500 kilometers (2,200 miles) from Antarctica to Ocean Beach, Western Australia, captured the attention of scientists, wildlife enthusiasts, and the general public. Despite extensive speculation, the actual reasons behind Gus’s exceptionally long swim remain unknown.
The boat traveled for several hours from the state’s most southerly city of Albany before the penguin was released into the Southern Ocean, but the government didn’t give the distance in its statement.
Some more images from that second article:
Earlier at the beach:
