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Altruism, Albatrosses, and Vicious Young Men

10,000 Birds

Gutierrez, Justice, and Mesker were camping with classmates from Punahou, usually described as “a prestigious Honolulu prep school.” They emerged from their bloody rampage leaving fifteen adults dead, and fifteen destroyed nests with either smashed or missing eggs. Nature does not always provide a happy ending.

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Comebackers

10,000 Birds

But within a couple of decades, it’s effects on both wildlife and humanity became apparent. The most notorious effect is that their eggshells become so thin that a parent bird will crush it’s eggs while attempting to incubate them. They were secure in their isolated home here until humanity came to Laysan in the 1890s.

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