Meet the penguin who swims 8,000 kilometers every year to visit the man who saved his life. Dindim is the most loyal friend of a Brazilian fisherman named João Pereira de Souza. They met on a Brazilian beach in 2011, where his 71-year-old husband found him covered in oil and on the verge of death. De Souza cleaned him up and cared for him until he fully recovered. And the story of eternal friendship was born.
Penguin Dindim (American Magellanic penguin) could be one of the many victims oil spill. But then a guardian angel came in the form of a Brazilian fisherman. João Pereira de Souza he saved him from certain death after cleaning his feathers and curing him of poisoning. In Brazil it is otherwise forbidden to have wild animals at home, but the authorities made an exception in Dindi.
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Namely, Dindim after the nice 71-year-old saved him, which he didn't and didn't want to leave. When it happened, it happened to everyone's surprise returned to his savior a year later. And then again next year. And next year. Now he's back for the fifth year in a row and it seems like he's vacationing at de Souza's. As the Brazilian says, he loves penguins as your own child, and he is sure that the penguin loves him too.
This is confirmed by the fact that he does not allow himself to be touched or cuddled by anyone else. ”Dindim sits on my lap, we he lets me shower him, feed him sardines, and pick him up like a little baby.” Let's say these penguins go on their annual pilgrimage inland from the sea to mate and fish, and during they swim huge distances, and then they return to the mainland. Well, every year Dindim returns to a very special place.
