
Looks like I'm not above the ocasional fart joke
The Albatross Courtship dance is almost certainly one of the most intricate and complex of any being apart from the French.
Sometines an albatross chick can spend some extra time inside the egg. Parents don't usually help with the hatching.
It is known that Albatrosses have quite a complicated courtship dance ritual.
There once was an albie from Leith,
Who thought he had plenty to eat,
But his health eroded
'till his stomach exploded
For plastic digests not like meat.
Yes, Albatrosses do spend years at sea without ever touching firm ground.
I hear Albatrosses can spend up to ten years without setting a webbed foot on land. Can you imagine living so long without touching anything stable and firm? And when they come to land they do it for one reason only. Yes, you guessed it.
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And keep on smiling
Every year at fledging time, tiger sharks gather to feast on the less motivated Albatrosses. It's fly or die time.
Albatrosses are aided in soaring by a wing-lock mechanism, a sheet of tendons that lock the wing when fully extended, allowing the wings to be kept outstretched without any energy expenditure. Neat, huh?
There once was a bloody big Albatross
who struggled to get the idea across
that the great big blue sea
is a nice place to be,
But with garbage it's thick just like applesauce.
Yes, that's right, I've rhymed Albatross with Applesauce. That's how my mind works and I'm not ashamed to say so.
I hear that a Black-browed Albatross has been sighted in Heligoland on the 19th of April 2015. Just like last year in May. Remember? I wonder if it's the same bird...
You can read more about this here in this excelent article by Felix Timmermann
It is a well known fact that Albatrosses are master flyers. Less well known is the fact that they are close to useless on land.
That might explain why they spend so little time there.
Young albatrosses will return to land after reaching sexual maturity. But that may take some time.
Did you know that Albatrosses and other wildlife die from plastic in their food chain? Plastic Food kills and it's not as if those animals had the healthy food option we arguably do.
You can learn more about this on the Plastic Pollution Coalition website.