{"id":31477,"date":"2017-09-14T15:50:52","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T20:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com.php72-4.lan3-1.websitetestlink.com\/?p=31477"},"modified":"2017-09-14T15:50:52","modified_gmt":"2017-09-14T20:50:52","slug":"man-saves-penguin-buds-for-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/culture\/man-saves-penguin-buds-for-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Man saves penguin – buds for life"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a><\/p>\n <\/a> <\/a><\/p>\nThat is retired bricklayer, part time fisherman, and kind soul Joao Pereira de Souza.<\/h2>\n
His buddy there is a\u00a0South American Magellanic penguin name Dindim.<\/h2>\n
If you couldn’t already tell, these two are pals…<\/h2>\n
Joao , 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.<\/h2>\n
He\u00a0cleaned the oil off the penguin\u2019s feathers and fed him a daily diet of fish to build his strength. He named him Dindim, because ‘Happy Feet’ would have been stupid.<\/h2>\n
After a week, he tried to release the penguin back into the sea. But, the bird wouldn\u2019t leave. \u2018He stayed with me for 11 months and then, just after he changed his coat with new feathers, he disappeared,\u2019 Joao recalls.<\/h2>\n
And, just a few months later, Dindim was back. He spotted the fisherman on the beach one day and followed him home.<\/h2>\n