Every year, a penguin travels 5,000 miles for a reunion with the
Brazilian fisherman who saved its life.
The 71-year-old fisherman, Joao Pereira de Souza, first met the Magellanic
penguin in 2011 when it washed up on a bed of rocks, starving and covered in
oil.
De Souza spent a week nursing the endangered bird back to health, giving him the name Dindim.
De Souza spent a week nursing the endangered bird back to health, giving him the name Dindim.
The penguin did not leave the fisherman when he attempted to release it
back to the waters. Instead, it lived with him for 11 months.
Once the penguin grew its feathers back, it disappeared,
only to return a few months later.
“Everyone said he would not return but he has been coming back to visit me
for the past four years. He arrives in June and leaves to go home in February
and every year he becomes more affectionate as he appears even happier to see
me.”
Dindim spends eight months of the
year hanging out with his human soulmate on a beach outside of Rio de Janerio
and is believed to spend the rest of the year breeding off the coast of
Argentina and Chile.
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