If I was to justify to the Mods (doffs cap) why I post this, I would say that it is a vital discussion about the transportation of live animals in the cabin ...
Penguin on a plane becomes a web hit - Yahoo! Travel UK
Pete the penguin, who was travelling back home to San Diego's SeaWorld theme park, had been appearing at a show in San Francisco
The on-board crew allowed him to stretch his legs during the 90-minute flight from San Francisco to San Diego, much to the amusement of his fellow – human – passengers.
Pete's SeaWorld keepers, who had taken the Arctic bird to a national science convention, took the opportunity to give people on the flight a free lecture on penguins. South American Magellan penguins such as Pete are classified as a threatened species
Videos of Pete the penguin uploaded by passengers on the flight began to appear on the web last week.