A penguin drew more coverage than a prime ministerSourced
An emperor penguin reached New Zealand.
For a while, it eclipsed the prime minister.
In 2011, an emperor penguin nicknamed Happy Feet appeared on a New Zealand beach roughly 3,200 kilometres from Antarctica. More than 600 media outlets covered him; for a time, he received more attention than the country's prime minister.
The reason for his journey
remained a mystery.
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