The Golden Phoenix's video: Penguin Returns Every Year To Visit The Brazilian Man who Saved His Life

It’s the story of a South American Magellanic penguin who swims 5,000 miles each year to be reunited with the man who saved his life. Retired bricklayer and part time fisherman Joao Pereira de Souza, 71, who lives in an island village just outside Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, found the tiny penguin, covered in oil and close to death, lying on rocks on his local beach in 2011. Joao cleaned the oil off the penguin’s feathers and fed him a daily diet of fish to build his strength. He named him Dindim. After a week, he tried to release the penguin back into the sea. But, the bird wouldn’t leave. ‘He stayed with me for 11 months and then, just after he changed his coat with new feathers, he disappeared,’ Joao recalls. And, just a few months later, Dindim was back. He spotted the fisherman on the beach one day and followed him home. For the past five years, Dindim has spent eight months of the year with Joao and is believed to spend the rest of the time breeding off the coast of Argentina and Chile. It’s thought he swims up to 5,000 miles each year to be reunited with the man who saved his life. ‘I love the penguin like it’s my own child and I believe the penguin loves me,’ Joao 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. ‘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 Professor Krajewski, who interviewed the fisherman for Globo TV, told The Independent: ‘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. And, just like that, the world seems a kinder place again. All images courtesy and credits of Joao Paulo Krajewski, Cyro Scarpa, Roberta Bonaldo, Cristiano Gomes and Globo TV. Bird swims 5,000 MILES every year to visit Brazilian man who nursed it back to life after he found it covered in oil and dying on a beach. Penguin returns home every year to the Brazilian man who saved it. Penguin swims 5000 miles every year to see man who saved his life. Meet Dindim, the penguin who returns to his human soulmate every year. Patagonian Penguin Finds Second Home in Brazil. Beached in Brazil, a Young Penguin Finds His Human Soul Mate. Penguin Always Comes Home To The Man Who Saved His Life. Penguin Finds Human Best Friends. A Brazilian widower gets adopted by a penguin. It's freaking adorable. Penguin swims 5000 miles every year to visit his rescuer. A heart-warming story: This penguin swims 8,000km every year to meet his human friend. Penguin Travels 8000 Kilometres To Visit Human BFF In Brazil. Penguin swims to Brazil every year to see man who saved his life. Loyal penguin travels 5000 miles to visit man who saved him from the brink of death. The internet's heart is breaking over a penguin who returns to a Brazilian island to see his rescuer every year. Penguin returns every year to man who nursed it back to health. Warming friendship: A man and a penguin forge a bond over thousands of miles. Incredible: Penguin swims 5000 kms back to its Brazilian helper. Penguin returns to the man who rescued him every single year. Awww! This penguin swims 8000 kms every year just to meet the fisherman who saved him once! Penguin swims 8000 kilometers to reunite with human pal. Dindim the penguin swims 5000 miles to see his soul mate. Magellanic Penguin Treks 5000 Miles To Visit Rescuer Each Year. I'll Be Back: Penguin Swims Thousands Of Miles Every Year To Meet Human Friend. Penguin swims 5000 miles every year to reunite with man who saved its life. Loyalty 101: Penguin swims 5K miles yearly to visit 'best friend'. A Penguin Is Beach Buddies With The Man Who Saved Him And It Will Melt Your Heart. Retired Bricklayer And Little Penguin Have A Friendship That Has Spanned Over Four Years. A história do pinguim que volta todo ano ao Brasil. No Creerás la Historia de este Pingüino y El Hombre que salvo su vida. 企鹅被巴西老人救下 每年游5千英里回去看望他 To subscribe to Golden Phoenix Channel : http://www.youtube.com/user/GoldenPhoenix888?sub_confirmation=1 To view this channel : https://www.youtube.com/user/GoldenPhoenix888