Alex lives at the Central Park Zoo in New York., a lion, Marty a zebra, Gloria a hippopotamus and Melman, a giraffe. One day a group of penguins try to escape to Antarctica excavating a tunnel, But they end up by mistake in the Marty enclosure. Marty thus begins to imagine the world beyond the Zoological walls and he also decides to escape. Thus, overnight, Marty flees secretly and Alex, Gloria and Melman are looking for him to bring him back to the Zoological. At the Central Park station, The four animals are discovered and asleep with narcotic darts next to the penguins who had devised the escape plan and are sent by sea to a natural reserve in La Sabana. During the trip through the ocean, After a series of errors, The boxes of the four friends fall into the sea and are found on an African beach in Madagascar.
