TODAY   |  December 09, 2012

Penguins in Tokyo take over as Santa’s elves

With the elves busy helping Santa, penguins in Japan have put on their Christmas best. The penguins have the very special task of turning on the Christmas lights at their aquarium every night. TODAY’s Jenna Wolfe reports.

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>>> finally, santa's elves may have competition in japan. penguins at an aquarium have taken on the role of santa's little helpers. in the evening they have the special task of switching on the christmas lights , but before you get excited, by day, all they do is lounge around and do little to nothing so basically it's sort of their civic duty to do the whole