People crowd at Byculla Zoo to see the penguins on Sunday. Pic/Bipin Kokate

Penguins are known to move around in large numbers, shuffling their feet on the large icy tracts in the Arctic and Antarctic regions. It was a similar sight yesterday, when at least 25,000 Mumbaikars thronged the Byculla Zoo for a glimpse of the Humboldt Penguins. The main difference: it was not at all cute, unlike in the case of the aquatic birds. In fact, it was completely chaotic with the crowd in queues undisciplined, all (no) thanks to the civic body keeping public viewing of penguins free till month-end.