Happy Feet penguin does U-turn for NZ

HAPPY Feet may miss New Zealand after all, according to a tracking device showing the wayward emperor penguin is swimming north. 
The penguin was liberated in sub-Antarctic waters south of Stewart Island yesterday more than two months after coming ashore on Pekapeka Beach near Wellington.

The sickly bird, the first of his kind seen in New Zealand in 44 years, was nursed back to health at Wellington Zoo, winning the hearts of Kiwis and animal lovers worldwide in the process.

Returned to good fitness and fitted with a GPS tracking device, Happy Feet had an "excellent chance" of meeting other adolescent penguins and finding his way back to Antarctica, experts say.

But online monitoring on ourfarsouth.org seems to show that he has turned in a north-east direction and is heading back to New Zealand.

Wellington Zoo vet Lisa Argilla, who is credited with saving the penguin's life, has said some deviations in his swimming course were to be expected.

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