This "Snowbird" Love Story Will Melt Your Heart!
How far will you travel to see family and friends? Miles and miles. Humans, apparently, are not the only ones who love togetherness. Our friend Dianne Budlon Devitt sent us this wonderful, heart warming story about a very unusual friendship between a penguin and an elderly man. Brazilian biologist Joao Paulo Krajewski reports: Four years ago, Joao Pereira de Souza, 71, found a South American Magellanic penguin covered in oil and starving on a beach on an island off the coast of Rio de Janeiro. A friendship was born. Since they met in 2011, the creature, which normally breeds on the Patagonia coasts of Argentina and Chile, three to five thousand miles away, has become a faithful companion, swimming every year from its habitat to spend up to eight months living with the retired fisherman in his house on the island. “I love the penguin like it’s my own child and I believe the penguin loves me,” said Mr Pereira de Souza in an interview with Globo...