NZ penguin making waves in Australia

[Donna]

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10805501

Australian authorities have been fighting over the penguin's future after the Department for Environment and Natural Resources demanded she be transferred to a zoo and kept as a permanent exhibit animal.

"They can go get stuffed," said Machado.   

"We are not going to give her up to the zoo. Look at her home range - after swimming 3000km, they are going to put her in a pool for the rest of her life. That is torturous."

[MAK]

Why in the world would they enslave a wild animal if it wasn't absolutely necessary which in this case it doesn't appear to be. Heavy freakin' sigh...