Earlier this month, officials from EcoWorld Aquarium in Picton, New Zealand, discovered a single lonely egg near a penguin breeding ground, likely abandoned by its mother as an unseasonably high Spring Tide washed through the area days before. But although the egg was stone cold and seemed totally lifeless after so long without the warming presence of mom, aquarium staffer Kishan Kirkwood decided to try to save it anyways.
As it turns out, Kishan just so happens to live with an expert incubator -- his pet pigeon.
Evidently, it didn't take long before the undiscriminating pigeon welcomed the needy egg into her nest with open wings, happily taking on full-time egg-sitting duties to nurse that chilly baby penguin back to life. In fact, she seems to have taken on her job as surrogate mom with seriousness that by the time the egg hatched several days later, she couldn't quite figure out why it wasn't a pigeon that emerged -- but instead a little blue penguin chick.
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