Yes, Albatrosses do spend years at sea without ever touching firm ground.
Showing posts with label Flying. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Flying. Show all posts
1 August 2015
1 July 2015
Landsick
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.
15 June 2015
Shark Shaped Motivation
Every year at fledging time, tiger sharks gather to feast on the less motivated Albatrosses. It's fly or die time.
1 June 2015
The Famous Wing-Lock
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?
15 March 2015
Self-Conscious Waddlers
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.
1 February 2015
Release The Fledglings
Young albatrosses will return to land after reaching sexual maturity. But that may take some time.
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