The lighter penguin is an elderly female whose mate died this year. The darker one is a younger penguin who lost his mate two years ago. Biologists have followed them as they meet up every night to comfort each other. They spend hours together looking at the lights.
Photographer Tobias Baumgaertner captured this image of two widowed fairy penguins looking out over the Melbourne skyline. It has won an award in Oceanographic magazine's 2020 Ocean Photography Awards. 💙
