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Albatrosses spend 50 years together
Attenborough's Story of Life Attenborough
The birds form one of the longest partnerships
By Matt Walker
27 February 2017
Watch the moment when Sir David Attenborough and BBC filmmakers recorded the extraordinary partnerships formed by albatrosses.
Even better, you can watch a further 1,000 more memorable moments, for free, anytime, on your smartphone or tablet, via Attenborough's Story of Life app, which is now available to download via Google Play, or Apple's app store.
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20170221-albatrosses-spend-50-years-together
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KT2000
(20,604 posts)is used in such a negative way. They are really quite magnificent.
Control-Z
(15,682 posts)What a lovely surprise.
eppur_se_muova
(36,317 posts)i.e. because sailors regarded an albatross as something akin to sacred, and killing one a blasphemy.
OTOH ....
KT2000
(20,604 posts)mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)Judi Lynn
(160,663 posts)BillyBobBrilliant
(805 posts)Beautiful and majestic birds. Just a tremendous site to see them soaring at a couple of thousand feet. That enormous wing span of almost 12 feet.
demigoddess
(6,645 posts)The babies of this year stay with mom and dad and help raise next years babies. I used to see 2 baby crows with 4 attentive adults and wonder what was going on. Also I used to see a crow in our yard who liked the peanuts we put out but he would wait until the squirrel had his share and left and then he would wait until the stellar bluejay was finished and then he would take his turn. One day I was out in the yard near the peanut feeder and a crow sat up in the tree nearby and purred at me. It sounded so much like a cats loud purr. Sounded like a thank you. And they pick up trash and take it away (that's more than people do)