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Two fairy penguins “flipper in flipper”. The photo was taken by Tobias Baumgaertner in 2020. St Kilda Pier in Melbourne has a colony of around 1,400 fairy penguins, the smallest penguin species with an average height of just 33cm (13 inches). The colony is monitored by volunteers. “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”, Mr Baumgaertner wrote on Instagram. “Since then they meet regularly, comforting each other and standing together for hours watching the dancing lights of the nearby city”. (Photo by Tobias Baumgaertner/Ocean Photography Awards/PA Wire)
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