penguin soup

Zoo penguins intent on futile 'migration' / S.F. flock swims round and round in pool

I won't quote the whole article to you, but it's very funny and sad.

"In early 2000, Sea World in Aurora, Ohio, was sold, and its Magellanic penguins, accustomed to swimming all winter, were shipped to Sea World in San Diego. Half a dozen of them moved to San Francisco in November, and they met their new colleagues 3 1/2 weeks ago.
Since then, nothing has been the same.
Within two hours, the three males and three females from Ohio -- smaller and more docile than their mean and hefty San Francisco counterparts -- had convinced the 46 to jump in the pool with them. Now they swim most of the day and stagger out only at dusk.
The San Francisco penguins are inept at aquatic dining, and their Ohio brethren never had to deal with sea gulls jumping on their heads.
Some penguins are thinner, Tollini said, since they 'eat less than they would if they were sitting on their asses.' It's harder to give them medicine. When they're on Penguin Island, they're nervous wrecks. And when their pool is drained on Thursdays, she said, they're all bug-eyed and they bump into each other like pinballs."