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Penguin gets a surfing lesson when it jumps on instructor's bodyboard (video)

Carla Sinclair
Sep 24, 2024
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Image: Roger de la Harpe / shutterstock.com

A bodyboarding instructor in South Africa usually teaches humans — but earlier in the year, he encountered a different kind of student when a small penguin hopped on his board.

And the feathered student — an endangered African penguin — managed to keep its balance as it stood on the board, waiting for just the r…

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