Penguin Sir Nils promoted to Major General Rank in Norway

New Delhi: In a rare happening a penguin has been promoted to the rank of Major General in Norway. Accordingly, the bird has become world’s highest ranking penguin. The penguin resides in the Edinburgh zoo of Scotland.

Edinburgh Zoo wrote in a X post (formerly Twitter), “The highest-ranking penguin in the world, Sir Nils Olav III, has been promoted to Major General by the Norwegian King’s Guard. Sir Nils now holds the third highest rank in the Norwegian Army!” This caption was posted along with a couple of photographs. In one of the photos we can see that uniformed officials are doing salute to the bird.

The penguin was awarded the new rank of honour at a special ceremony that took place at the wildlife conservation charity’s Penguins Rock.

It is to be noted that the king penguin is the mascot of the King of Norway’s Guard since 1972.

The achievement to be promoted to such rank by the feathered friend is undoubtedly a rare feat.

The post by Edinburg Zoo has earned a number of interesting comments. A user wrote, that penguin is better paid than me 😀 congrats sir!

Congratulations Sir Nils I hope Mrs Walowitz is suitably impressed and you gad a magnificent fish supper to celebrate, another user commented.

I can’t be the first to point out that he is the very model of a modern major general, yet another user commented.

Arise, Sir Penguin 🐧🫡

The highest-ranking penguin in the world, Sir Nils Olav III, has been promoted to Major General by the Norwegian King’s Guard 🏅

Sir Nils now holds the third highest rank in the Norwegian Army!

Find out more about Sir Nils 👉 https://t.co/mQ4zGKqUbk pic.twitter.com/PVfw9KKz0H

— Edinburgh Zoo (@EdinburghZoo) August 21, 2023