In what her guard called a “miracle,” a runaway bird in Japan was discovered safe and sound after two weeks of escaping into the water and paddling for kilometers.
Pen-chan, a female Cape bird who was born and raised in captivity and had never before ventured into the open water or had to fight for herself, ran away from an occasion in the main Aichi region on August 25.
A team immediately began searching the area, according to guard Ryosuke Imai, who was “desperate,” but a record-breaking typhoon dumps across Japan hampered the research.
The team believed Pen-chan do not get very far or stay more than a month because of her absence of swimming and unsubstantiated survival skills in the wild.
However, Imai learned on September 8 that the moth animal had been seen gladly bobbing in the waters at a beach close to 45 kilometers.
” I thought she would seem exhausted, but she was swimming as usual”, Imai told AFP after the dog was recaptured.
” It was beyond my wonder… It’s a miracle”, he said.
He said that six-year-old Pen-chan must have been eating fish and crustaceans that she caught itself.
” I think she got there by stopping at different places for a tear, but it’s still unbelievable”, Imai said.
” She lost her fat somewhat, but she’s doing wonderful”.