'Penguin' spotted near Portsmouth

'Penguin' spotted near Portsmouth

'Penguin' spotted near Portsmouth, First there was Happy Feet, and now another penguin has been spotted 'lost' 6,000 miles from home - swimming in the sea at a Portsmouth beach.Stunned Joanne Gordon spotted the penguin and shot the footage at Southsea on Sunday. Lost in Portsmouth,

She said: 'I looked down and couldn't believe it when I saw it swimming around away just six foot from me.

'I'm convinced it was a penguin. It zoomed off after about five minutes.'

Experts believe it could be an endangered African jackass penguin, which usually lives near Cape Town, and that it could have become separated from its group before following a food trail through the Atlantic to the Solent. 'Penguin' spotted near Portsmouth,

Robert Westby of the Amazon World Zoo in the Isle of Wight, which keeps the jackass species, told The Sun: 'It certainly looks like a penguin.'

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