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Altruism, Albatrosses, and Vicious Young Men

10,000 Birds

The oldest Laysan albatross was last seen raising a chick on Midway Atoll in 2016, at age 66. He didn’t maim or touch the animals, period,” said his lawyer, Myles Breiner, during his not guilty plea. Biologist Lindsay Young says it will take 8 years to replace the breeding birds; 14 years of research and data have been destroyed.

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