{"id":69979,"date":"2020-04-20T08:33:47","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T12:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/?p=69979"},"modified":"2020-04-20T08:33:47","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T12:33:47","slug":"widowed-penguins-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/widowed-penguins-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Photographer Captures Two Widowed Penguins Enjoying The Melbourne Skyline Together"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Credit: Tobias Baumgaertner\/Instagram – @tobiasvisuals<\/p><\/div>\n

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A\u00a0<\/span>wildlife\u00a0<\/span>photographer captured a tender moment between two widowed penguins comforting each other as they look out over the Melbourne, Australia skyline. It’s probably one of the most adorable photo’s ever!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Tobias\u00a0<\/span>Baumgaertner\u00a0<\/span>photogra<\/span>p<\/span>hed<\/span>\u00a0the two animals<\/span>\u00a0in the\u00a0Melbourne\u00a0suburb of St Kilda<\/span><\/span> back in 2019, but it wasn’t until yesterday that the incredible photo started gaining attention after it was shared on Twitter.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Credit: Tobias Baumgaertner\/Instagram – @tobiasvisuals<\/p><\/div>\n

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When he shared it\u00a0<\/span>on\u00a0<\/span>his own Instagram page<\/span><\/span><\/a>\u00a0last month, Tobias explained\u00a0<\/span>the two penguins\u00a0<\/span>had apparently lost their respective\u00a0<\/span>partners, and<\/span>\u00a0had been watching the ‘dancing lights’ of the Melbourne skyline together.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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He wrote:\u00a0<\/span>“During times like this the truly lucky ones are those that can be with the person\/people they love most. I captured this moment\u00a0<\/span>about<\/span>\u00a0a year ago.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Credit: Tobias Baumgaertner\/Instagram – @tobiasvisuals<\/p><\/div>\n

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“These two Fairy penguins poised upon a rock overlooking the Melbourne skyline were standing there for hours, flipper in flipper, watching the sparkling lights of the skyline and ocean.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“A volunteer approached me and told me that the white one was an elderly lady who had lost her partner and apparently so did the younger male to the left.\u00a0Since then they meet regularly comforting each other and standing together for hours watching the dancing lights of the nearby city.”<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

It could Tobias a few nights to get the shot, but it was totally worth it!<\/p>\n

Tobias continued:\u00a0<\/span>“<\/span><\/span>I\u00a0<\/span>spent<\/span>\u00a0three full nights with this penguin colony until I was able to get this picture. Between not being able or allowed to use any lights and the tiny penguins continuously moving, rubbing their flippers on each other’s backs and cleaning one another, it was\u00a0<\/span>really hard to get a\u00a0<\/span>shot<\/span>\u00a0but\u00a0<\/span>I<\/span>\u00a0got lucky during one beautiful moment. I hope you enjoy this moment as much as I did.<\/span>“<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A\u00a0wildlife\u00a0photographer captured a tender moment between two widowed penguins comforting each other as they look out over the Melbourne, Australia skyline. It’s probably one of the most adorable photo’s ever! Tobias\u00a0Baumgaertner\u00a0photographed\u00a0the two animals\u00a0in the\u00a0Melbourne\u00a0suburb of St Kilda back in 2019, but it wasn’t until yesterday that the incredible photo started gaining attention after it was shared on Twitter.\u00a0 When he shared it\u00a0on\u00a0his own Instagram page\u00a0last month, Tobias explained\u00a0the two penguins\u00a0had apparently lost their respective\u00a0partners, and\u00a0had been watching the ‘dancing lights’ of the Melbourne skyline together. He wrote:\u00a0“During times like this the truly lucky ones are those that can be with <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3866,"featured_media":69980,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[55,28688],"yst_prominent_words":[28687,28686,28685,9560,28683,28681,28680,28675,11185,18248,28676,9930,26262,28671,28672,28684,28682,17786,28674,28673],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69979"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3866"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69979"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=69979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}