A popular video on the Internet shows the touching relationship between a penguin and the Brazilian man who saved him from certain death.
Joao Pereira de Souza, 71, was from an island village just outside Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. He found the tiny penguin struggling(挣扎)on rocks in 2011.
The helpless penguin was in hunger and covered in oil. Mr de Souza took him in and nursed him back to health. He named the South American Magellanic penguin Dindim. It took him a week just to clean the sticky black things from the bird's fathers(羽毛). When Dindim was well again, Mr de Souza sent him back into the sea, never expecting to see his new friend again.
He was shocked when just a few months later, the penguin returned to the island. Dindim found 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(繁殖)off the coast of Argentina and Chile. The flightless bird probably swims around 5000 miles every time he returns to Mr de Souza.
He said he fed Dindim a daily diet offish to make him strong, and then took him back to the sea to let him go. "But he wouldnl leave, he stayed with me. Then just after he changed his coat with new feathers, he disappeared, " recalled Mr de Souza. "Everyone said he wouldn't return but he has been coming back to visit me for the past four years. "
Biologist Joao Paulo Krajewski interviewed Mr de Souza for Globo TV. He said, "I have never seen anything like this before. I think the penguin believes Mr de Souza is a part of his family and probably a penguin as well, When he sees him, he wags his tail like a dog and honks with happiness. "
①When Dindim was well again, Mr de Souza sent him back into the sea.
② When he sees him, he wags his tail like a dog and honks with happiness.
③ He was shocked when just a few months later, the penguin returned to the island.
④ The flightless bird probably swims around 5000 miles every time he returns to Mr de Soiaa.