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Reading more from Eye of the Albatross, Visions of Hope and Survival by Carl Safina; we are back on Tern Island with a new group of researchers. The weather is hard on people and birds and chicks alike.
“Visibility closes to a few hundred feet, and sudden thick rain drives down upon us. The pelting raindrops sting, as though it’s raining frozen peas. The albatrosses turn their faces up into the rain, biting at the air, gulping at the raindrops, swallowing precious freshwater that they’ve been losing for weeks.”
We will learn about sharks and rays and their unique senses of electrical fields, the amazing ways they maintain their neutral buoyancy, and how tube-noses (albatrosses, shearwaters and petrels) have lovely musky sweet smells.
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