Normally, Gus should weigh about 100 pounds, but when he was found on that Australian beach, he only weighed 51 pounds. In ...
After a 20-day rehabilitation, Gus was released back into the Southern Ocean on November 21. A wayward emperor penguin was ...
The only emperor penguin known to have swum from Antarctica to Australia was released at sea 20 days after he waddled ashore ...
The emperor penguin, dubbed Gus, had somehow swam over 2,000 miles from his icy home and was found on a sun-drenched beach in ...
The penguin was given to a local wildlife expert to care for and was named Gus. He was malnourished ... Important in Antarctica where icy water temperatures average around 28 degrees Fahrenheit.
Gus the penguin was released 20 days after he was found on an Australian beach, around 2,100 miles away from Antarctica.
The only emperor penguin known to have swum from Antarctica to Australia has been ... wildlife caregiver Carol Biddulph, who named him Gus after the first Roman emperor Augustus.