San Francisco Zookeepers Perplexed By Endless Circle-Swimming Penguins

AP ^ | January 16, 2003

[Hatteras]

Throw an Orca in there. They'll get out.

[Doc Savage]

If I recall correctly ALGore took credit for discovering the South Pole!

[gnarledmaw]

If you guys found a way in then there must be a way to swim out...

[ProudGOP]

Interesting, but this isn't the first occurrence of this type of behavior.

In 1992, a couple of Clintons were introduced to the Democrat party and the whole lot of them have been going in circles ever since.

[Prodigal Son]

Whatever the explanation, there's probably a good short story or a Disney flick in it somewhere.

Maybe they think they're migrating, escaping? Maybe they've invented a religion like the Ghost Dancers- if they swim and swim and swim, one day they'll wake up on an iceberg free from the zoo?

[dennisw]

Major Owens

[Sacajaweau]

Sounds like the Penguins are training their keepers.

Ever notice that when we walk a dog, the dog is always in the lead!!! (Until they get to "their favorite spot" where WE patiently wait for them to recycle). Then we pick it up besides and throw it in OUR garbage can. Don'tcha just love the concept of a human trained by a dog. The dog does and sounds like the penguins do, too.

[Egregious Philbin]

If mammals eat, birds too, a big dose of listeria loaded food(like some fish), I would suppose the same could occur.

Maybe you're onto something here! Seems like a very lighthearted article considering it could be a real problem...

Reminds me of a lyric, all this does:

"I gotta roll, can't stand still/
Got a flamin' heart, can't get my fill"

[NorseWood]

Maybe they are just training to try out for the synchronized swimming event in the next Summer Olympics.

[Semaphore Heathcliffe]

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[Phantom Lord]

John Majors has said it too. But Algore has spouted it as well.

[Phantom Lord]

John Majors! What a moron I am. Major Owens was the guy.

[LoneConservative]

You're thinking of Major Owens.
Matt

[justanotherfreeper]

Think treadmills, stairmasters, excercise bikes -- maybe the little guys just want the excercise.

[Fedupwithit]

OMG!!! I have tears in my eyes fromm laughing reading this whole thread, but your post just put me over the top!!!

[TC Rider]

Maybe it's a Linux thing.

swim
--circle
repeat

[upchuck]

I figger either

the penguin gods are pissed off

or

aliens

[TC Rider]

aliens, definitely aliens

is it time for Wapner?

[Amerigomag]

Drain the pool. Let them march for a while.