Brazil: Here is a heart-warming reunion story of a South American Magellanic penguin and a man. This penguin swims 8,000 miles every year to reunite with the man who saved his life. Unbelievable right!
Joao Pereira de Souza, 71, found a tiny penguin in 2011, in very critical condition, covered in oil, lying on a rock and it was half dead. The part time fisherman took care and game him new life. Joao wiped the oil from its body and started feeding him fish everyday in order to regain its health. Joao name the baby penguin as Dindim. ‘He stayed with me for 11 months and then, just after he changed his coat with new feathers, he disappeared,’ Joao said.
The story dint end here, Dindim was back after few months and since 5 years he has been spending 8 months of the year with Joao. It’s believed that the penguin spends rest of the time breeding off the coast of Chile and Argentina. And it’s amazing to see how he swims 5000 miles every year to meet the man who once saved his life.
Joao said, “I love the penguin like it’s my own child and I believe the penguin loves me. No one else is allowed to touch him. He pecks them if they do. He lays on my lap, lets me give him showers, allows me to feed him sardines and to pick him up.”
