Meet the penguin who became friends with a digger

Birds of a feather stick together! Collin the penguin is pals with a digger - it even looks like it has a face!

A playful penguin named Collin has become pals with a construction digger in Antarctica.

Engineer named Alan Cox, travelled around 10,200 miles (about 16,400km) from his home in Lincolnshire, to work on a construction project for the British Antarctic Survey.

It involved building a new research centre called Discovery for Rothera Research Station as well as resurfacing its runway.

Alan said he'd seen lots of wildlife whilst working there, including seals, orcas and humpback whales, but that Collin the penguin stole the show.

Collin - named by Alan - is a gentoo penguin, one of the fastest species of penguin - they can swim up to 22 miles per hour!

"He was a particular type of penguin who seemed to think the 50-tonne excavator we had here was either his parent or some sort of friend of his," said Alan.

The plucky penguin kept trying to sit in the bucket of his 50-tonne (50,000kg) digger.

"It was very difficult to keep him away from the machine... Collin was insistent on trying to sit in the bucket of the excavator and get really close," he explained.

Thankfully Collin was not injured in his quest to become pals with the digger.