Paulo Pinguino

This "penguin" figurine comes all the way from Chiapas, Mexico.  My boyfriend got it for me while he was there for a week long human rights program.  I guess a kid made it himself and was selling it.  The kid said this clay figurine was a "pinguino", which is penguin in Spanish, but I question whether this little guy really is a penguin.  He has the facial features and ears of a cat but the wings of a penguin.  And what's that hump on his face?  It's not a nose because that red circle is his nose.  I'm not trying to discredit the kid's artistic skills because he made an elephant and it actually looked like an elephant. But I just can't figure out if he really is a penguin and if not, what he is?

Is he?  Or isn't he?