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"No," I said, pulling up a GIF of Skipper slapping Kowalski. "These guys."

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.

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I landed in Anchorage, rented a 4x4, and immediately asked a local ranger: "Where is the best viewing spot for the Madagascar penguins?"

I was wrong. Horrifically, comically wrong. "No," I said, pulling up a GIF of Skipper slapping Kowalski

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

Somewhere north of Juneau (I think)

Here is the cold, hard truth that DreamWorks Animation never warned you about: There are no wild penguins in the Northern Hemisphere. Zero. Zilch.

But honestly, standing on a glacier, watching a puffin struggle to fly while a whale breached in the distance, I realized something: The real treasure wasn't the penguins. It was the absurdity of the journey. I told my friends, "I’m going to find