With its spiky head plumage and intense red eyes,
the southern rockhopper penguin (Eudyptes chrysocome, seen above) looks more like a slightly predatory guy at a college party than a committed monogamous partner.
For four species of
penguin that use the area for breeding — gentoos,
southern rockhoppers, Magellanics, and kings — the mines are a boon.
All 18 species of
penguin were studied; Emperor and Adelie (Antarctica), King, Chinstrap, Gentoo, Macaroni, Royal,
Southern Rockhopper, Northern
Rockhopper (Sub-Antarctic), Little, Fiordland, Snares, Erect - crested, Yellow - eyed (Oceania), and African, Magellanic, Humboldt and Galapágos (Africa and South America).