The hen that thinks it's a penguin

Awkwardly described as a 'peng-hen', the hen doesn't walk like a normal chicken - instead, it waddles upright with its wings tucked behind its back.

The hen's owner, fisherman Liu Yong, says that the hen 'walked in a weird way from its childhood', marching around upright rather than scratching on the ground and roosting on a perch at night.

Ministry of silly squawks: the hen walks around upright like a penguin or, possibly, John Cleese

The identity crisis sadly means that the hen is rather lonely - Liu says that 'other chickens must think she is a freak, as no one will get close to her.'

'In the night all the chickens will fly up to the roof of the chicken house, leaving only her on the ground,' he adds.

Fans of chicken/penguin crossovers will, of course, recognise the scenario as an inversion of the Wallace & Gromit film The Wrong Trousers, which features as its villain a penguin who disguises himself as a chicken.