Penguin's 3,000 miles wrong turn
A Chilean penguin ended up 3,000 miles away from home when the confused animal swam all the way to Peru.
Biologists believe the Magellanic penguin strayed from its course and mistakenly swum to Peru's temperate waters.
The penguin was found by a fisherman at the Paracas National Reserve where an employee said they discovered the animal was hurt.
Ramses Palacios said: "We found it inside the Paracas Reserve, near the rocks, near where the fishermen who found him fish. Its wing was bleeding."
The Paracas National Reserve is a Pacific coastal marine reserve dominated by sandy desert located just south of the equator.
The reserve contains thousands of native Humboldt penguins but scientists fear the native birds may reject the stray and are working to return it to its natural habitat.
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