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What's the record here? For instance swifts can fly for 10+ months without landing.
by rq1 5y ago
What's the record here? For instance swifts can fly for 10+ months without landing.
- jacquesm 5y agoAlbatros: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-amazing-albatrosses-162515529/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-amazing-al...
- kabes 5y agoNo it's the Swift. The albatross does land on water, so that's why the article states: without touching land...
- jacquesm 5y agoWater isn't land though, is it?
- dredmorbius 5y agoThat somewhat depends on precisely how cold the water in question is.
- jacquesm 5y agoHehe, good point. But for me 'land' means soil, though I'll take landing on an ice floe or the North Pole as land for the purposes of this discussion. I'm not sure how far North/South the Albatros' habitat extends, but it wouldn't surprise me at all if they went there too.
- stef25 5y agoCurious about how / when they sleep
- Markoff 5y agothey sleep during flight, I think some/many fish/birds can switch off parts of brain to be esentially sleeping while autopilot works, sharks for instance, I guess for lowly humans closest comparison would be sleep walking
- FR10 5y agoI just looked that up, very impressive: > “They feed in the air, they mate in the air, they get nest material in the air,” [0] > "They can land on nest boxes, branches, or houses, but they can’t really land on the ground.” That's because their wings are too long and their legs are too short to take off from a flat surface. [0] https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/swift-bird-10-month-migration https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/swift-bir...