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This penguin swims 5,000 miles every year for reunion with the man who saved his life

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penguin-and-manJoao 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.

Source: http://www.newspip.com/article/13910/This-penguin-swims-5000-miles-every-year-for-reunion-with-the-man-who-saved-his-life.html?rnd=0,7429621&ref=gm

France: COMMEMORATIONS of Armenian GENOCIDE 101 over 5,000 protesters in Paris plus other cities

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Paris rally 2016It is now 101 years that took place the Armenian genocide, still denied by Turkey. A year after moving centenary celebrations, the Armenian community was still waiting for you to gather outside the Komitas statue in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, and then to walk to the Champs Elysees and the Annex to the Embassy of the Turkey. Despite the rain and cold.

There were nearly 5,000 people, including politicians (Bruno Le Roux, Francois Pupponi, Luke Carvounas Helene Luc, Arthur Khandjian, etc.), cult members and various personalities (Levon Sayan, the acupuncturist Elise Boghossian, the author Gaya Guérian, filmmaker Arto Pehlivanian, etc).

The memorial ceremony began with a wreath-laying of two co-chairs of the CCAF, Mourad Papazian and Ara Toranian, the mayor of the 8th arrondissement, Jeanne D’Hauteserre, Ambassador of Armenia in France, His Excellency Viguen Tchitetchian to the deputy mayor of Paris in charge of international relations, Patrick Klugman, and the Secretary of State for European Affairs, Harlem Désir. The whole front of the doors flags. The six personalities are then made on the platform for the start of speech.