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Climate Change Is Making Albatross Couples
Split Up

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Posted By: NorthernDog, 12/4/2021 9:03:10 AM

Not all relationships end in “happily ever after,” and birds are no exception. While more than 90 percent of bird species form monogamous couples, many of these will end in divorce. The reasons for splitting up are as varied in birds as they are in humans, and often revolve around things like poor compatibility or slacking off by one partner. However, new research has found a surprising cause of divorce: climate change. Like many seabirds, black-browed albatrosses form monogamous pairs that can last for the entirety of their 70-year lifespans. However, just under 4 percent of these couples will separate

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What next? Maybe black birds will resist being baked in a pie due to global warming.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: NamVet70 12/4/2021 9:06:57 AM (No. 996634)
Bird couples splitting up? Oh, the HORROR!
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Jesuslover54 12/4/2021 9:10:33 AM (No. 996640)
Real reason is probably Trump, not climate.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Lake Dweller 12/4/2021 9:11:59 AM (No. 996642)
What complete BS.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: CallMeHank 12/4/2021 9:15:48 AM (No. 996646)
Bill and Hillary?
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Reply 5 - Posted by: GreatGreyhounds 12/4/2021 9:16:22 AM (No. 996647)
Is there anything that Climate Change cannot do?
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Reply 6 - Posted by: seamusm 12/4/2021 9:26:28 AM (No. 996660)
So albatross' are like people - some like it hot, some like it cooler. Maybe some even like to stay up late while their spouses are 'morning' birds. Who knows? Maybe some even like Biden........Naahhh. That's too much of a stretch.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: cor-vet 12/4/2021 9:39:43 AM (No. 996679)
Next, an in depth look at tranny-birds and LGBTQWXYZ+ birds and birds in mixed couples. Ican hardly wait! S/O
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Reply 8 - Posted by: GoodDeal 12/4/2021 9:41:30 AM (No. 996681)
This is more fake climate alarmism. Rubbish every word.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: hershey 12/4/2021 9:59:34 AM (No. 996695)
Oh yea sure, and when did the lame stream scientists last interview and albatross??? What a bunch of crappola...
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Reply 10 - Posted by: Kate318 12/4/2021 10:03:45 AM (No. 996704)
After living in the country for 30 years, I can tell you one thing: Nature finds a way. She is perfectly capable of making her own adjustments, finding her balance and healing herself. Humans need not apply.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: JackBurton 12/4/2021 10:14:45 AM (No. 996727)
You can't fool me. The guy bird habitually left the toilet seat up.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: Toby Ten Bears 12/4/2021 10:24:54 AM (No. 996738)
Because our readers will believe any lie we tell them.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: Ida Lou Pino 12/4/2021 10:59:07 AM (No. 996779)
Exactly! This is also why Algore and Tippler are no longer a couple.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: downnout 12/4/2021 11:09:20 AM (No. 996788)
Can you imagine writing drivel like this and then expecting to be taken seriously?
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Reply 15 - Posted by: Marzipan4 12/4/2021 11:15:29 AM (No. 996792)
How many gay albatrosses were interviewed? Probably none because once again the hateful daily beast is marginalizing them again.
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Reply 16 - Posted by: bigfatslob 12/4/2021 11:32:59 AM (No. 996813)
Greta the climate expert couldn't be reached for comment. You all know and I know this was probably happening long before the climate Nazis started the climate change, global warming BS. It's nature but there are dumb down stooges who will read this and believe it.
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Reply 17 - Posted by: MOBeef4u 12/4/2021 12:12:42 PM (No. 996850)
I wonder how many of their mind-numbed readers even knew what an albatross was. This is pure albatross guano.
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Reply 18 - Posted by: msliberty1937 12/4/2021 12:17:05 PM (No. 996857)
The Ancient Mariner could not be reached for comment.
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Reply 19 - Posted by: BarryNo 12/4/2021 12:46:44 PM (No. 996883)
Such B.S.!!
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Reply 20 - Posted by: DVC 12/4/2021 1:22:45 PM (No. 996925)
Any article that starts from "climate change".....gets my automatic DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME....official treatment.
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Reply 21 - Posted by: BigGeorgeTX 12/4/2021 5:07:54 PM (No. 997121)
What a load of bovine scat.
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Reply 22 - Posted by: WinterParker 12/5/2021 8:28:36 AM (No. 997586)
I thought single mothers were the bomb?
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Reply 23 - Posted by: mifla 12/5/2021 8:55:47 AM (No. 997614)
Did they interview the birds? Did the birds show up in Judge Judy's counrt?
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