Photo by M. Murphy (Wikimedia)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nLike other seabirds, the Royal Penguin is colonial and tends to nest on the beach or on cleared areas.\u00a0 The female of this penguin species will generally lay two eggs, however, it seems as though the first egg is just for practice.\u00a0 Typically, the second laid egg will be larger and will hatch before or at the same time as the first laid egg.\u00a0 It is usually the second egg that survives and in some cases the adult penguins will throw the first egg out of the nest before it hatches.\u00a0 It must be tough being the black sheep of the family and you aren’t even born yet.\u00a0 I would think this is survival technique as there is not much point in wasting energy and time incubating an egg that probably won’t survive in the real world.\u00a0 Natural selection can be a very cruel process, can’t it?<\/p>\n
How about that, we are at the end of another Friday Wild Fact.\u00a0 Thanks for spending the week with me but I will let you go and enjoy the weekend on your own now.\u00a0 Have a good one!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
To end the week we are going to be hanging out with Royalty.\u00a0 Okay, so maybe they aren’t royalty amongst us humans but I bet the Royal Penguin is respected and loved among their penguin comrades.\u00a0 Actually, have you ever noticed that there are a lot of “Royalty” like penguins?\u00a0 Look, we have the Royal Penguin, the King Penguin and of course the Emperor Penguin.\u00a0 Those must be the most powerful and dominant birds species on our planet.\u00a0 In order to observe the latest Royal member of Wild Facts, we will need to take a trip to Antarctica.\u00a0 Don’t worry, <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4024],"tags":[348,983,1791,1790,4025,404,405,1788,1789],"yoast_head":"\n
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