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kpete

(71,991 posts)
Thu Dec 31, 2020, 09:58 AM Dec 2020

Wow, an uplifting story of redemption for 2020

The lighter penguin is an elderly female whose partner died this year. The darker one is a younger male who lost his partner two years ago. Biologists have followed them as they meet every night to comfort each other. They stand for hours together watching the lights in Melbourne



Photographer Tobias Baumgaertner captured this image of two widowed fairy penguins looking over the Melbourne skyline. It has won an award in Oceanographic magazine’s Ocean Photography Awards 2020.


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and OH MY I JUST FOUND VIDEO!

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ORIGINAL POST BY PHOTOGRAPHER:
https://www.instagram.com/p/B_YuSL1BWxa/?igshid=1utsczlic348n
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