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This is Scientific American's 60-second science. I'm Christopher in Taguata.

Hundreds of miles southeast of New Zealand, you'll find the wind-swept bounty and

Antipodes Islands.

It's there you'll find the breeding grounds of what may be the world's most punk rock

penguin, which sports twin bleached blonde mohawks.

So it's like if you took a penguin and you put its flipper in an electricity outlet and it got a shock.

That's what you might imagine it looks like.

Lloyd Davis of New Zealand's University of Otago says the erect crested penguin, as it's known,

also has a peculiar breeding strategy.

The females lay two eggs, but generally leave the first one to die.

They just plop the egg down on the rock and it's just bizarre to see.

And then 40% of them, they just turn their back on it.

They don't even attempt to incubate it.

It's like, yeah, I don't care about that.

Davis says that's unusual, because most birds pour resources into the first egg and the second

and however many more, but the last egg is almost an afterthought.

The final egg just acts like an insurance policy for them, so if they lose one of the

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