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adirondacker

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2. The article is fun and fascinating, chock full of information that I never knew about the albatross.

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Wed Apr 23, 2014, 01:46 AM

Apr 2014

Last edited Sat Apr 26, 2014, 04:42 PM - Edit history (1)

"But typically the chick "spends a full nine months sitting alone ... in its nest, most of the time in quiet contemplation of its surroundings since it has no siblings.""

I also had no idea that they lived that long...65 years!

Avoid the flamingos!

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