Posted on 03/13/2016 6:33:09 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
A penguin named Dindim swims around 8000 kilometres every year to visit his best friend, a fisherman who saved his life.
Rio de Janeiro resident Joao Pereira de Souza did not expect to make a lifelong friend when he rescued a struggling, oil-slicked penguin from the beach years ago – but that’s exactly what happened. Now Dindim swims thousands of miles to spend eight months out of the year with his buddy, renewing everyone’s faith in the deep connection we share with animals.
In 2011 Pereira de Souza discovered a South American Magellanic penguin on the beach near his home. The bird was covered in oil and the kind man nursed him back to health over a period of a week, which eventually blossomed into an eleven month-long friendship. Dindim eventually left, but he returned the next June – a ritual he keeps to this day.
“I love the penguin like it’s my own child and I believe the penguin loves me,” Pereira de Souza told Globo TV in an interview. The bird is so attached to the 71 year old that he will not allow anyone else nuzzle or touch him. Those who have seen the pair say Dindim will honk and wag his tail when he sees his friend.
South American Magellanic penguins do not usually make a habit of washing up on Brazilian shores, and some believe climate change may be to blame for the change in their patterns. They will regularly travel thousands of miles for food and breeding, yet there has been a surge in marine animals ending up on Brazilian beaches. In the midst of the bleak realities of global warming, however, this story can shine on as an example of true friendship.
Agencies/Canadajournal
It seems that inclusion of Climate Change - a strategy for liberal control - has become a obligatory as fornication is for Hollywood.
It’s a good story. It’s too bad the author had to bring global warming into it. Global warming simply can’t explain why a penguin would swim all the way to already hot Brazil, when a supposedly warmer Argentina is much closer.
Sweet story but the climate change mention is unnecessary.
It is called "migration."
You’re being logical. That has no place in the globull warming scam. I thought the same thing. Why would he swim north to an even warmer place?
Just stupid. Not ignorant. Stupid.
Unique, heartwarming story. Thanks for posting it!
I saw a similar story years ago about some penguins that return to a family vacation home on the beach in Uruguay every year but this is much further north
It’s a migratory thing and the birds know a good thing when they see it
Birds adjust migration...just look a all the mallards and Canadians that stay year around now in ponds and waterways of Dixie
Brasil has a huge....20-30% thug culture in its poorer areas..and very well armed with LARs and some propelled stuff too.....hope no one just acts out
They have something in common. Neither one has any teeth.
Latest Weather Channel headline:
GORE’S GLOBAL FLATULENCE CAN MAKE YOU LOOSE YOUR TEETH!
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