… coastline.
“Never in my wildest thoughts would I have thought I’d ever have an emperor penguin to care for,” shared Carol Biddulph, who’s a registered wildlife rescuer and who brought Gus back to her facility for care. “It’s just amazing. It’s such a privilege to be part of this bird’s journey,” she added.
Dr Belinda Cannell, a research fellow at UWA’s School of Biological Sciences also mentioned that it is really uncommon to see emperor penguins so far from Antarctica.
“Tracked non-breeding penguins have never been observed in open water where there is no pack-ice, and never north of 60 degrees South,” she explained...

… According to the Western Australia state’s Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, the penguin was found on November 1st on a well-known tourist beach in the town of Denmark in southwestern Australia.
“The penguin appeared to be malnourished and was removed from the beach to avoid potential threats,” a statement said.
While no one really knows why the penguin had ventured so far away from his home off the Antarctic coast, this is the first time that an emperor, the largest penguin species, has been known to have reached the Australian coastline...

…so anyway…

…on with the story in a moment when my technology stops being dumb…

Emperor penguins, known as the heaviest and tallest of all penguins, in wild nature can only be found in Antarctica where they are used to dealing with an incredibly harsh environment, with windchills reaching -76°F. Therefore, people in Australia couldn’t believe their eyes when one such penguin was recently found on the beach more than 2,000 miles from its icy home.
Surfer Aaron Fowler was among the first lucky ones to spot the penguin nicknamed Gus.…

An Emperor Penguin Travels Over 2,000 Miles For An Adventure Of A Lifetime…

……I did laugh…