What a beautiful story! I think that in the realm of souls, we can, some of us, communicate with an animal, a special one, and no matter if the other is an animal, you make a sort of "contact". I know this because some years ago I had a special relation with a prairie dog and she was, for me, not a prairie dog but a little soul that came to me and stayed with me some 8 years and our relation was not prairie dog-loreta but soul-soul. So this man and this penguin maybe they are two souls that have made contact.