Searching For- The Penguins Of Madagascar In-al... Instant

Skipper and the gang are escaped captives. They are fugitives. They are, in the most literal sense, lost .

Searching for the Penguins of Madagascar in Alaska: A Cautionary Tale of Film-Induced Geography

Somewhere north of Juneau (I think)

I was wrong. Horrifically, comically wrong.

Just smile and wave, boys. Smile and wave. Have you ever traveled somewhere based on a cartoon lie? Tell me I’m not the only one in the comments. Searching for- the penguins of madagascar in-Al...

I learned that while you can find penguins in Africa (yes, the African Penguin lives in South Africa—close to Madagascar, actually), and obviously in Antarctica, you will never find them bobbing next to a grizzly bear in Alaska. Not even Private.

The silence that followed was deafening. The ranger, a kind woman named Deb who has probably seen every dumb tourist question in the book, blinked three times. "You mean... puffins ?" Skipper and the gang are escaped captives

It started innocently. I packed my binoculars and a copy of The Lost Crown . I told my friends, "I’m going to find the wild habitat of the penguins." Nobody corrected me. Perhaps they wanted to see how this played out.