I adore the penguin as if he is my child, and I admit that the penguin loves me back.
This is a sweet case about a South American Magellanic penguin named Dindim who annually passes 8,000 km in order to meet the man who rescued his life 8 years ago.
A fisherman named Joao living on an island located in Brazil who is 71, detected a baby penguin covered in oil and nearly dying in 2011.
Joao cleaned the oil from his feathers, breastfed him, and gave him the name Dindim.
A few days later, Dindim was ready for peace, so Joao made up his mind to return him to the ocean. Either way, the penguin won’t leave early.
“He stayed with me for a very long time, and after he changed his fur coat for new feathers, he vanished,” Joao said. The moment he settled in, he said he would stay away forever.
Amazingly, just after a few months, Dindim came back in order to call on the fisherman. The couple got back together and it continues steadily.
No one really knows where he goes, and some people have calculated that he puts in an energy balance that reproduces on the coasts of Argentina and Chile.
Nevertheless, it is obvious that he keeps vanishing and keeps coming back to meet Joao.
“He shows up in June and comes home in February and is getting nicer because he’s so much happier to meet me.”
“I adore the penguin as if he is my child, and I admit that it’s reciprocal,” Joao told Globo TV. “Other people are prohibited from contacting him.
He pokes them, guessing what they’re doing. He lies on my lap, lets me take a shower, allows me to take care of the sardines for him, and take him in my arms.”