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Environment & Energy

twodogsbarking

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2. What about the Albatros.

Reply to sl8 (Original post)

Sat Apr 20, 2024, 10:07 AM

Apr 20

Albatrosses are masters of soaring flight, able to glide over vast tracts of ocean without flapping their wings. So fully have they adapted to their oceanic existence that they spend the first six or more years of their long lives (which last upwards of 50 years) without ever touching land.

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