STLtoday - News - Story: "Macek attributed the penguins' audacious behavior to the species' fearlessness and lack of intelligence. The fearlessness comes from living on isolated islands without land predators. And the low IQ means it often takes them a couple months to learn what a parrot might figure out in a day. "

I thought this story about penguins escaping from their area in the St. Louis Zoo was pretty funny. That was until I read the last paragraph about the cheetah escaping:

Penguins aren't the only Zoo residents testing their boundaries. On Aug. 12, a female cheetah climbed up a wall in the River's Edge area and leaped out of her pen. She startled some visitors before Zoo workers herded her back to her enclosure.

I'm thinking that perhaps the zoo needs to spend some more time figuring how how to keep the animals in their assigned spots.

Link from Mimi Smartypants.