This incredible video shows the touching relationship
between a penguin and the Brazilian man who rescued him
from certain death.
Retired bricklayer and part time fisherman Joao Pereira de
Souza, 71, from an island village just outside Rio de Janeiro
in Brazil, discovered the tiny penguin languishing on rocks
in 2011.
The helpless creature was starving and covered in oil but Mr
de Souza took him in and nursed him back to health, naming
the South American Magellanic penguin Dindim.
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It took him a week just to clean the sticky black residue
from the bird's feathers.
When Dindim was well again Mr de Souza released him back
into the sea, never expecting to see his new friend again.
He was astonished when, just a few months later, the
penguin returned to the island where he recognised Mr de
Souza and returned home with him.
Now, Dindim spends eight months of the year with Mr de
Souza and spends the rest of his time breeding off the coast
of Argentina and Chile.
The flightless bird is believed to swim around 5,000 miles
everytime he returns to Mr de Souza.
'I love the penguin like it's my own child and I believe the
penguin loves me,' Mr Pereira de Souza told Globo TV.
'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.'
Mr Pereira de Souza said he fed Dindim a daily diet of fish
to improve his strength then took him back to the sea to let
him go.
'But he wouldn't leave, he stayed with me for 11 months
and then just after he changed his coat with new feathers he
disappeared,' recalled the retired builder. 'Everyone said he
wouldn't 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.'
Biologist Joao Paulo Krajewski, who interviewed Mr Pereira
de Souza for Globo TV, said: 'I have never seen anything
like this before. I think the penguin believes Joao is part of
his family and probably a penguin as well.
'When he sees him he wags his tail like a dog and honks
with delight.'
Another expert said it appears as though Dindim recognises
Mr de Souza as he would another penguin, and acts
accordingly.
between a penguin and the Brazilian man who rescued him
from certain death.
Retired bricklayer and part time fisherman Joao Pereira de
Souza, 71, from an island village just outside Rio de Janeiro
in Brazil, discovered the tiny penguin languishing on rocks
in 2011.
The helpless creature was starving and covered in oil but Mr
de Souza took him in and nursed him back to health, naming
the South American Magellanic penguin Dindim.
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........................................................................................
It took him a week just to clean the sticky black residue
from the bird's feathers.
When Dindim was well again Mr de Souza released him back
into the sea, never expecting to see his new friend again.
He was astonished when, just a few months later, the
penguin returned to the island where he recognised Mr de
Souza and returned home with him.
Now, Dindim spends eight months of the year with Mr de
Souza and spends the rest of his time breeding off the coast
of Argentina and Chile.
The flightless bird is believed to swim around 5,000 miles
everytime he returns to Mr de Souza.
'I love the penguin like it's my own child and I believe the
penguin loves me,' Mr Pereira de Souza told Globo TV.
'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.'
Mr Pereira de Souza said he fed Dindim a daily diet of fish
to improve his strength then took him back to the sea to let
him go.
'But he wouldn't leave, he stayed with me for 11 months
and then just after he changed his coat with new feathers he
disappeared,' recalled the retired builder. 'Everyone said he
wouldn't 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.'
Biologist Joao Paulo Krajewski, who interviewed Mr Pereira
de Souza for Globo TV, said: 'I have never seen anything
like this before. I think the penguin believes Joao is part of
his family and probably a penguin as well.
'When he sees him he wags his tail like a dog and honks
with delight.'
Another expert said it appears as though Dindim recognises
Mr de Souza as he would another penguin, and acts
accordingly.
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