Penguin swims 5,000 miles every year to see man who saved his life

metro.co.uk

75 points·snadahalli··12 comments

It's sweet and cute and I really loved the story, but I must admit I'm not really sure how this qualifies as hacker news?

Penguin orientation capabilities? Unusual behavior? Brain.

Animal intelligence. Non-human persons with the capacity to love. I think these are hugely important issues.

HN is for anything that gratifies intellectual curiosity.

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Penguin already swam 5,00 miles every year, now calls in on man while he's there.

Haha, love it! There's definitely a space for forced animal anthromorphization humor. Smart, funny books! Like Madagascar, et al. but adults.

In this case, for example, the first 95% of the story would be from a touching documentary-type narrative, about how smart, thoughtful, loyal etc. penguins are. In the end, we find out Penguin newspapers all have headlines like "Penguin swims 5,00 miles for other personal reasons, calls in on man while he's there. Is treated as a goddam hero" etc.

Just finished reading this book[0] to my kids last night. I wonder: are penguin's social groups especially prone to this kind of interspecies bonding or is this just a one in a billion fluke?

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Popper%27s_Penguins

Gentle reminder: The Metro is a sister newspaper to the Daily Mail (which is a trashy UK tabloid, well known for regularly "reporting" about new things that cause cancer)

But the original news is from Globo, Brazil's largest TV network.

Just goes to show you how far a little compassion goes.

The title should be a penguin swims 5000 miles to see an odd looking penguin who happens to be a human.

That and the guy feeds him.

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