#albatrosses

[snototter]

A pair of black browed albatrosses (Thalassarche melanophris) on the Falkland Islands

by Jim Wilson

[seagull-chaika]

Маленькие альбатросы — пушистые комочки...🤗

[unbfacts]

[thalassarche]

Black-footed Albatrosses (Phoebastria nigripes) - photo by weedmandan

[arthistoryanimalia]

For a belated #WorldAlbatrossDay:

1. Pl.6, Oceanic birds of South America, V.1, New York, 1936

2. Pl.40, Wild life of the world, London, 1916

3. Pl.XXVI, Le monde de la mer, Paris, 1866

Via BHL

[silvaerial]

"Tell us why we seek outside When it's all inside our minds Carry us to cradled coves Bury us beneath the hands Of a monster who can dance"

A personal piece with my sonas and interests <3 drawn as a gift for myself

[adobe-outdesign]

Bad news: most birds that we think mate for life are actually socially monogamous but still mate with everything in sight. They raise eggs together, but most of the eggs aren’t the father’s.

Good news: albatrosses can be lesbians! They have all the same mate selection patterns as heterosexual couples (including their weird “dancing”), they engage in cuddling, sexual activity and nest-sharing with each other, and, since they’re socially monogamous but sexually polygamous like most pairing birds, they even raise chicks together!

Not surprising—a lot of animals are polygamous, especially birds. That aside I support all the lesbian albatrosses out there