Posted by: David Gallagher | December 10, 2010

Hitchhiking Penguin

Susan Moran has posted a video on her blog of a recent encounter with a lazy chinstrap penguin:

While out on a Zodiac earlier this week a chinstrap decided he’d had enough swimming and wanted a free ride. The video was shot by Chris Schvarcz, a doctoral student at the University of Hawaii who’s here at Palmer Station researching the role viruses play in the marine ecosystem along the western peninsula.

Here is the video:

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