00:03On the coast of southeast Brazil, a penguin has made himself at home with an unlikely companion.
00:10For the last four years, this Magellanic penguin has been hanging out with a retired bricklayer named João Pereira de
00:17Souza.
00:18The penguin, nicknamed Jing Jing, disappears into the ocean for as much as four months at a time.
00:24But when he comes back, it's always to de Souza's shanty by the sea.
00:29De Souza found Jing Jing in 2011, soaked in oil and lying on the beach in front of his house.
00:36He fed the bird some sardines and gave it a shady spot to rest, and he hasn't been able to
00:41get rid of Jing Jing since.
00:49Magellanic penguins are known for migrating thousands of miles a year between breeding colonies in Patagonia and feeding grounds further
00:57north.
00:58Despite their reputation as cold-water animals, the birds have been known to turn up in the warm waters of
01:03Brazil,
01:04where a northbound current occasionally drops them off on tropical beaches like this one in Rio de Janeiro state.
01:10But local fishermen have never seen anything like this.
01:14The funniest thing is that the penguin might stay here for a week, then it walks down to the beach
01:19and leaves.
01:19It spends 10, 12, 15 days, and then comes back to the same house.
01:23They're supposed to join together, find some path to the south, but he doesn't.
01:29Jing Jing regularly goes to sea for days, weeks, or months at a time,
01:34only to waddle his way back to Mr. de Souza's home.
01:37He usually spends about eight months of the year here,
01:40and the bond between the two has become pretty strong.
01:43De Souza says Jing Jing won't allow other animals to get anywhere close to him.
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