1 / 9 Baby Penguin Meets Human

A baby Gentoo <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/baby-penguin-meets-human_n_1539886" target="_hplink">penguin met blogger and world traveler Joel Oleson</a> for the first time last May while Oleson visited Antartica. Gentoo penguins are listed as "near threatened" on the IUCN Red List. The captivating meeting went viral as these things tend to do.