Penguin Wanders off to Streets of Budapest, Hungary Police Send it Back to Zoo

Hungarian police rescued an unusual “fugitive” on a busy street in the capital, a penguin. The police team wrapped him up in a cloth and rehabilitated him into the Budapest Zoo. The Budapest police department stated that the officers spotted a little penguin wandering a large street near the Budapest Zoo early on Wednesday, March 9. Sanyika, who is an African penguin, managed to break away from his enclosure and was headed down the street when local authorities spotted him. They wrapped him up in a blanket and took it back to the relatively safer zoo. The Sanyika is just 6 months old, and typical of his age, he is extremely curious by instinct and evidently was not too satisfied with his limited space.

Sharing images of police officers with the little penguin, the police department in a Facebook post stated that “as it would have been a long walk to Antarctica, they caught the bird, wrapped it in a blanket and handed it over to the Budapest Zoo.”