Ausralia's oldest man knits for Penguins

[Betty]

The 109 y/o man spends his time knitting tiny wool sweaters for tiny, injured penguins. When Phillip Island’s Penguin Foundation requested the tiny sweaters following a massive oil spill that injured hundreds of Little Penguins, a species only found in southern Australia and New Zealand, he couldn’t refuse.

 "It's a good way of getting along in life. You make friends all the time but you don't make a fool of yourself either,” he said.

Date has been knitting for more than 80 years, but this was his first time into bird knitwear. The Penguin Foundation stresses to knitters that “this is not a fashion statement" -- the sweaters actually prevent the injured penguins from preening and swallowing the toxic oil.

I love how he makes them in all sort of cool designs rather than just pain ones. Also it's cool how the wild birds were able to line up in a row to get their picture taken.