Touching moment herd of horses adopt a penguin after the bird became separated from its group

Two horses adopt this lost penguin into their group after he was spotted waddling alone just outside Stanley, in the Falkland Islands

Nuzzling up together on the frosty ground in the Falkland Islands, this might seem like the most unlikely of friendships.

But this herd of horses took in a lonely penguin as one of their own and snuggled up with their curious new companion.

They were also seen playfully chasing after the bird as it stretched out its wings and waddled along the white-topped turf.

The horses also craned their necks and touched their noses with the penguin's beak in the heart-warming snaps.


A puzzled horse inspects his peculiar new companion after he went missing in the Cape Pembrokeshire Nature Reserve, in the Falklands

The Falklands is one of the world's great penguin capitals. There are five penguin species on the islands, including king, rockhopper, magellanic, gentoo and macaroni penguins.

Around 500,000 breeding pairs of penguins live on the island, home to a rich array of wildlife.


The horse touches his nose to the penguin's beak - the scene was spotted by Sarah Crofts as she was feeding her three horses



One of the horses arches his neck to catch a closer look of the penguin as they struck up an unlikely friendship

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Just love cross-species friendship stories. Looks cold down there in the Falklands. Everybody's got their winter coats on.