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  • The wandering albatross can fly across vast distances using a technique known as dynamic soaring.
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  • @Siacourage
    @Siacourage 5 месяцев назад +85

    Here's another fun fact. Albatross, like other sea birds, are capable of sleeping while in flight. This is called Unihemispheric Slow-Wave Sleep (USWS). Basically one hemisphere of their brain sleeps while the other remains awake and vigilant. This allows them to rest one half of their brain while still maintaining control over essential functions and staying alert to their surroundings. Truly amazing birds.

    • @SolAiken
      @SolAiken 5 месяцев назад +3

      Thanks for sharing this amazing fact. Cannot upvote your comment enough.

    • @chorton53
      @chorton53 3 месяца назад +2

      Thanks for that. I was just about to ask.

    • @turkarshreyash9022
      @turkarshreyash9022 День назад

      Autopilot ❤

  • @Ben-bg2lp
    @Ben-bg2lp 2 года назад +449

    In Tom and Jerry, Tom flys using his nostrils as well when he smells a pie.

    • @SinCityRaider81
      @SinCityRaider81 2 года назад +12

      🤣

    • @Rickiye
      @Rickiye 2 года назад +6

      😁😁😁

    • @Rich-Oh
      @Rich-Oh 2 года назад +16

      And they also help detect wind currents like the albatross, because Tom then finds himself lifted and floating effortlessly toward the window sill with the freshly baked pie.

    • @1wun1
      @1wun1 2 года назад +5

      And Jerry for the cheese scents

    • @marshawargo7238
      @marshawargo7238 2 года назад +4

      I'm wishing I could "Like" a comment more than Once‼💕🐧💦

  • @benagitss3684
    @benagitss3684 2 года назад +321

    No pilot, no radar, no engines, no runaways, no fuel yet a true master of flight. Amazing mastery of the wind.

    • @delshadmansour5443
      @delshadmansour5443 2 года назад +23

      No pilot?

    • @flowerofash4439
      @flowerofash4439 2 года назад +6

      modern dinosaur

    • @PhillinRoyal
      @PhillinRoyal 2 года назад

      Mofo compared a bird to a commercial airplane. Next he’ll compare cheetah to ferrari.

    • @online12plus
      @online12plus Год назад +42

      pilot is albatross, radar is their wind sensor and eyes, engine is muscles, runway is water, fuel is fish. everything is there just different

    • @diganwhisky.uruguay
      @diganwhisky.uruguay Год назад +1

      @@online12plus and the pitot tubes are the nostrils...

  • @derrellthomas239
    @derrellthomas239 2 года назад +61

    While in the Navy, we had an albatross land on our ship's mast. 1st and only one I've seen. Magnificent birds.

    • @BamBoomBots
      @BamBoomBots 2 года назад +11

      My dad had one fly alongside of his ships bridge for four days straight when he sailed in the southern Arctic. It must have liked the air currents coming from the ship or something.

    • @lethality3589
      @lethality3589 2 года назад +2

      That’s so cool man

    • @JoTheSnoop
      @JoTheSnoop Год назад +4

      One of my uncles told me of the time an albatross landed not far from him when he was relaxing out on the deck of a cruise ship in the South Pacific.

    • @chasm671
      @chasm671 Год назад +1

      ​@@kdjnhdojgdjjdhrge7824 Did you ever take him up on it? It sounds a little dodgy to me tbh

  • @AsifAAli
    @AsifAAli 2 года назад +220

    Fly without wasting energy; how efficient. Wish I could walk like that... :P

    • @robbiwouters
      @robbiwouters 2 года назад +11

      Well, women walking with a weight on their head, as do quite a few in Africa, get by this in a swinging gait what cost them less energie to go forward as when nothing would be on their heads.

    • @greatexpectations6577
      @greatexpectations6577 2 года назад +6

      @@robbiwouters can men do that? I want to try that.

    • @AsifAAli
      @AsifAAli 2 года назад +3

      Green Fog Instruction not clear. I got detach from my body. How do I get back inside it? 👻😵

    • @LokimonWasHere
      @LokimonWasHere 2 года назад +1

      Rollerblading is minimal energy waste, unless you're going uphill.

    • @harmac521
      @harmac521 8 месяцев назад

      easy, just follow the wind

  • @xenostim
    @xenostim Год назад +22

    The way she unfolds her wings at 1:30 is so cool

  • @LKonstantina915
    @LKonstantina915 2 года назад +183

    woah they dont land for years?? Thats insane!

    • @ulflonegren4870
      @ulflonegren4870 2 года назад +56

      On land, but they will land in water. As far as I understand it.

    • @alienlatino2945
      @alienlatino2945 2 года назад +60

      @@ulflonegren4870 I don't know if it's the same antarctic bird but there's a species similar to this one that was fitted with a GPS and it flew for 27,000 kilometers (more than 4 weeks) without ever touching land or water.

    • @vikasgm7399
      @vikasgm7399 2 года назад +18

      @@ulflonegren4870 they will water in water but cannot land😁

    • @nsxt290
      @nsxt290 2 года назад +3

      Yeah... years!

    • @givemeyourkidneys4009
      @givemeyourkidneys4009 Год назад +2

      @@vikasgm7399 ?

  • @vismivijayan6361
    @vismivijayan6361 2 года назад +76

    Every creature has a beautiful capability unique to itself. Love and treat every life on earth with respect. They have the right to live as do we.

  • @cristinaalexe7454
    @cristinaalexe7454 2 года назад +126

    as a physics student, I find it amazing how birds fly this way

    • @xenostim
      @xenostim Год назад +12

      as a paper plate, I am in complete awe that the albatross can go for years without going to land

    • @eyesintheskies
      @eyesintheskies Год назад +1

      Get into engineering and make it happen for us please 👍

    • @thebrickton1947
      @thebrickton1947 Год назад

      I would hate for you to design a mimic to this beautiful creature, but am reassured that fat lazy humans would have no desire to send time in the cold southern oceans, so that is where I'll stay, but to see them and be with them as I work, you'll never know, and then there are the dolphins too, go and make cheap nuclear energy happen kid

    • @jordanrhodes929
      @jordanrhodes929 11 месяцев назад

      @@thebrickton1947 wtf are you on buddy? Go have another cold one

    • @johnswindles6476
      @johnswindles6476 7 месяцев назад

      @@xenostim i laughed too much at this

  • @sauravligal5809
    @sauravligal5809 2 года назад +67

    I love to see these huge birds flying without flapping their wings.

  • @teicheselchloropusasinus
    @teicheselchloropusasinus 2 года назад +47

    Albatrosses are my favorit wild animals. They are so awesome and fascinating birds

  • @NoelModesto
    @NoelModesto 2 года назад +5

    Had to go back and replay the last part. I thought I misheard. "For YEARS at a time."

  • @MoeJaxon
    @MoeJaxon Год назад +8

    That’s one huge bird. You really can’t tell until you get a really good close up. That’s a beautiful bird and it flys effortlessly

  • @richardlawson6787
    @richardlawson6787 Год назад +1

    I hope I come back an albatross...what a beautiful life to fly around the world for a living...poor humans

  • @PAULAOGETheChosenOne
    @PAULAOGETheChosenOne 2 года назад +7

    If you're watching and reading this I wish you love, peace and goodwill

  • @Anoobizz
    @Anoobizz 2 года назад +77

    Thats a true wonder of nature. Wonder if pterodactyls and their relatives had something similar going on?

    • @HueManatee
      @HueManatee 2 года назад +4

      pterosaurs is the group of animals youre looking to describe. past that im not sure if theres anything on that but its an interesting thought

    • @anyascelticcreations
      @anyascelticcreations 2 года назад +1

      Omg, I just said the same thing! 🤣👍

    • @blblbluh4196
      @blblbluh4196 2 года назад

      Dinosaurs never existed, physics wouldn’t have allowed it. It s a big lie. Albatross need this mechanism to move their ‘heavy’ 30lb bodies across the ocean. Logically , do you think the wind could support an 200 lb animal or one that’s the size of a giraffe?

    • @HueManatee
      @HueManatee 2 года назад +5

      @@blblbluh4196 pterosaurs werent dinosaurs among other ridiculous claims you made lmao

    • @blblbluh4196
      @blblbluh4196 2 года назад

      @@HueManatee what’s ridiculous? Please explain. The word Pterosaurs means winged lizards.

  • @FrankBenlin
    @FrankBenlin 2 года назад +6

    3:14 I'm going to do the ocean wing tap just to showcase my superior flying skills.

  • @jorgedelatorre9442
    @jorgedelatorre9442 2 года назад +10

    The albatross feeding her chick was filmed in Taiaroa Head/Pukekura, NZ.
    I only saw two of the three plastic band in her leg: Green (G) and Black (K), for this reason I can't identify who is she.
    Congratulations to the Rangers and whole staff in the Albatross Centre... Good job!

  • @keshavkumar7638
    @keshavkumar7638 2 года назад +14

    They are certainly more energy efficient flyers than most commercial jets.

  • @aimeegumina
    @aimeegumina Год назад +2

    This is GK (band colours Green/Black) from the Northern Royal Albatross colony near Dunedin in NZ. She was born in 2004 and has fledged 4 chicks so far with her partner! Great video! Thanks for sharing. The dynamic soaring is what captivates me with these sea birds.

  • @AhmedPorosh-vg8ih
    @AhmedPorosh-vg8ih 7 месяцев назад +1

    সর্বশক্তিমান আল্লাহ্ পাকের সৃষ্টি ❤

  • @TheAshCooper
    @TheAshCooper 2 года назад +6

    Only the best bird ever.
    Circumnavigates the world 3 times in a life time.

  • @endoneswa
    @endoneswa 2 года назад +3

    So this is why sailors have sculptures of them for good luck.

  • @lizowilliam013
    @lizowilliam013 2 года назад +8

    Wow, longest wingspan of any bird alive today?? Even longer than an ostrich… amazing

  • @grizzlywhisker
    @grizzlywhisker 6 месяцев назад +1

    These things are so cool because at a glance they look sort of like a goofy duck/seagull, but then you realize they’re absolutely massive.

  • @thatpoorsandersy32yearsago36
    @thatpoorsandersy32yearsago36 2 года назад +4

    I like this narrator's voice

  • @brandonm7867
    @brandonm7867 2 года назад +21

    "Correction" the southern royal albatross is larger then the wandering albatross and is the only albatross to have a wings span of 11ft on average do to it being 2lb's heavier however a wandering albatross based on measured specimens is about 10.5ft 21lb a southern 23lb 10.8 to 11ft.

    • @_esteban
      @_esteban 2 года назад +1

      bro look up largest flying bird in the world

  • @PR4U2NV
    @PR4U2NV 2 года назад +12

    Not to mention the years spent in the air without having to flap wings, or ever touching the ground. Incredible bird.

  • @naturalreach4316
    @naturalreach4316 2 года назад +2

    Birds look so neat and clean

  • @lyesbessad4065
    @lyesbessad4065 2 года назад +4

    my God the sea has an unparalleled prestige

  • @bigw813
    @bigw813 2 года назад +9

    Albatrosses are genius Birds. 😊

  • @matthewmiller7207
    @matthewmiller7207 11 месяцев назад

    "My Delores left me, for an AAALBATROOOSS!!! With GREEEAT ... BIIIG ... LOOOOONG WIIINGS!" ^^

  • @timmyotoole6063
    @timmyotoole6063 Год назад +1

    i genuinely wouldn't mind being an albatross next go. seems cool as hell

  • @robbietucker7815
    @robbietucker7815 Год назад +1

    Her take off at 1:37 was amazing!

  • @marinedream9481
    @marinedream9481 Год назад +9

    Wow…magical ✨
    I’ve had dreams of flying where I’ve felt this free-but only rarely. Nothing beats this kind of freedom 💫
    The Amazing Albatross

  • @Oakleaf700
    @Oakleaf700 11 месяцев назад +1

    Magnificent birds.

  • @lakshmikrishnan4637
    @lakshmikrishnan4637 2 года назад +30

    Very efficient, amazing, beautiful bird. Excellent voice over Sir. Awesome camera work. Overall a great team work. Enjoyed the video very much. Thank you BBC Earth 🌍

  • @kuitaranheatmorus9932
    @kuitaranheatmorus9932 2 года назад +2

    These birds sure was very cool and I love it

  • @Alexor715
    @Alexor715 Год назад

    They are like B-52: bit clumsy on takeoff/landing, but hell of an avians!

  • @Mokkel73
    @Mokkel73 2 года назад +3

    What the nostrils do, not a word about that.

    • @rlsvid
      @rlsvid 2 года назад +2

      @1:50 - special sensors in their nostrils measures the speed of the surrounding air

  • @Tiny578
    @Tiny578 2 года назад +4

    God is truly a genius. Yet almost noone gives Him the credit. Creation has a creator.

  • @jjjvvv123
    @jjjvvv123 Год назад +1

    How many scientists and physicists would have said this can't be done without seeing this bird? What else is possible that you have pushed aside

  • @prakashmishra474
    @prakashmishra474 2 года назад

    Sir David Attenborough would have made this documentary magical.

  • @sukruoosten
    @sukruoosten 2 года назад +1

    such beauty en wonderful DESIGNED

  • @rosalindy5674
    @rosalindy5674 2 года назад +4

    First female who lands may be "LGK" (bands look like "Lime-Green-Black") at Taiaroa Hd, NZ? Albatross who takes off has only 2 leg bands - different bird (LK or GK). Beautiful video, thank you.

  • @a.m.mohamedsaleem7525
    @a.m.mohamedsaleem7525 4 дня назад

    Super clarity video&good job 👏 🙌

  • @annechilton5208
    @annechilton5208 10 месяцев назад

    Wonderful mother nature, and God's design, also the song albatross so right for these wonderful gifts better then anything xx

  • @Zerturnosrs
    @Zerturnosrs 5 месяцев назад

    Homie is floating 120kmph like it’s nothing. Amazing

  • @Cwamseenke
    @Cwamseenke 2 года назад +2

    """congratulation The only actor Who doesn't loses his originality in Any of his"""💓❤😇😘😍❤

  • @alvinsoegiarto
    @alvinsoegiarto 2 года назад

    Most satisfying picture so far about the albatross. Great job

  • @ritahorvath8207
    @ritahorvath8207 2 года назад +3

    Who love Albatrosses since
    Walt Disneys "Bernard and
    Bianca" ?
    🐀

  • @harshporwal
    @harshporwal 7 месяцев назад

    Beyond Beautiful

  • @JaneDoe-ij4ls
    @JaneDoe-ij4ls 2 года назад +2

    Thank you! This was great.

  • @conradbo1
    @conradbo1 3 месяца назад

    What a great and wonderful video. Thanks very much.

  • @harmac521
    @harmac521 8 месяцев назад

    amazing bird one flap is all it takes

  • @tastemakerguidie
    @tastemakerguidie 6 месяцев назад +1

    d'daint got some old chewables needs some checkered

  • @AnnoyingNewsletters
    @AnnoyingNewsletters Год назад +1

    It dives at nearly 75mph. Yikes! 😳

  • @Idowu_Balogun
    @Idowu_Balogun 2 года назад +3

    Nature at it's best...

  • @michaelsimko7694
    @michaelsimko7694 2 года назад +2

    Amazing flight style

  • @mariadaluzmoutinho5701
    @mariadaluzmoutinho5701 2 года назад +14

    Maravilhoso vídeo BBC...Que belo voar e um feito incrível desta ave bela e imponente! A natureza sempre a frente!!

  • @johnfleff
    @johnfleff Год назад

    Great job!! … This song can be played on your “EastTop harmonica" in the key of “A” …. go ahead and play along with this great song.
    Eli: "King of Rock & Roll Harmonica".

  • @leomartinez4398
    @leomartinez4398 6 месяцев назад

    That's basically a giant seagull lol

  • @abdulazad2381
    @abdulazad2381 Год назад +2

    ماشاءالله❤... فتبارك الله احسن الخالقين.

  • @youtubeqatardoha
    @youtubeqatardoha 2 года назад +2

    wow ty

  • @sutapamazumdar5244
    @sutapamazumdar5244 2 года назад +1

    Wow 👏what a fantastic discovery. Impressed with the narration too!

  • @3li7amza
    @3li7amza 8 месяцев назад

    4:00
    Like a Boss

  • @BloodoperaBlackvomit
    @BloodoperaBlackvomit 2 года назад +1

    Flying Dinosaurs.

  • @TheMajortanner
    @TheMajortanner Год назад +1

    Nature is amazing!

  • @elisabas-il8262
    @elisabas-il8262 10 месяцев назад

    Beautiful

  • @TRDPaul
    @TRDPaul 2 года назад +2

    This is cool and all but what does it have to do with their nostrils?

  • @wildae.
    @wildae. 2 года назад +2

    wow how incredibe

  • @wes2262
    @wes2262 Год назад

    Rescuers down under 😊

  • @abdulrahimalias1079
    @abdulrahimalias1079 2 года назад +2

    "They utilise the energy in wind without spending theirs' at all"; Just try spreading your arms for an hour and the nutritionist will tell you how much calories you've depleted.

    • @trinal3745
      @trinal3745 2 года назад +3

      “Albatrosses possess a locking mechanism at the shoulder composed of a tendinous sheet that extends from origin to insertion throughout the length of the deep layer of the pectoralis muscle” in other words it doesn’t hurt them like it does for us

  • @footfault1941
    @footfault1941 2 года назад +1

    Aerodynamics may prefict that. Here's a fascinating example! Cutting-edge technology reveals so many secrets in nature.

    • @wildsideofthings7733
      @wildsideofthings7733 2 года назад

      There is or was a technology which took advantage of the same principal. Ekranoplans or ground effect vehicles which stay slightly above the water from the calm updrafts or the sea surface. Unfortunately they discontinued due to the collapse of the USSR.

  • @urielriley
    @urielriley 11 месяцев назад +1

    Wow 😳😳😳 what did I just watch. This is brilliance. OMG the Albatross is magical💜👑💜🌎✨ Thank you for this video. 🦸🏾‍♀️

    • @urielriley
      @urielriley 11 месяцев назад +1

      It's totally free. And the longest living bird 🐦 as well. 💯🌅

  • @WhatsUp2121
    @WhatsUp2121 Год назад

    The Birds wingspan exactly like the 777 ! Such a Beautiful Bird 🐦

  • @edcew8236
    @edcew8236 2 года назад +15

    Would love to have seen discussion on how they take off from water...

    • @anyascelticcreations
      @anyascelticcreations 2 года назад +4

      I was wondering that, too. No fast air to pick them up down there.

    • @deepdive2183
      @deepdive2183 2 года назад +9

      I think that they take off by flapping their wings

    • @leopardtiger1022
      @leopardtiger1022 2 года назад +3

      They run on surface of water till they reach V1 speed then put the tal down and they get the lift from wings and once air born they flap wings and climb to catch the rising air current and with that they go high up and then on it is a game for them.

    • @anyascelticcreations
      @anyascelticcreations 2 года назад +2

      @@leopardtiger1022 That's really cool to know! Thanks! It also sounds like a lot of work to take off. No wonder they don't land very often! I've heard that that's how they have to take off from land, too. I guess it's kind of like how we start a kite by running with it to create an air curent under it until it's high enough to catch the updraft.

    • @colecolettecole
      @colecolettecole Год назад +2

      @@anyascelticcreations hi ~ on land they just open their wings & the wind will catch them & lift them off ~ its quite magnificent ~

  • @ovjuvi7489
    @ovjuvi7489 9 месяцев назад

    When i die i want to comeback as one of these

  • @han-dell
    @han-dell 2 года назад +2

    So the nostrils are really a pitot? That's nuts.

  • @dontworrybehappy4916
    @dontworrybehappy4916 8 месяцев назад

    Such amazing birds

  • @clayton9136
    @clayton9136 Год назад

    Incredible

  • @animalinnature7429
    @animalinnature7429 2 года назад +3

    Albatross are really amazing with their wingspan.

  • @Kleft-wm3pv
    @Kleft-wm3pv 2 года назад +1

    It does expend energy to maintain constant body temperature though.

  • @catherinebeduer3838
    @catherinebeduer3838 2 года назад

    Wonderful video !! 🤩 I love the Albatrosses, I would fly like that !! 😍 Congratulations and thank you so much, BBC Earth. 💕💐💐💐💐💐💐💐😊🌹❤🙋‍♀️🤩

  • @skypink5821
    @skypink5821 5 месяцев назад

    What a life

  • @dianestiner8602
    @dianestiner8602 Год назад

    Absolutely amazing bird 🤩Beautifull images and music Thank you for the share 🙏

  • @tzeccentric7848
    @tzeccentric7848 Год назад

    I was just watching some clips of the Antonov AN 225, it sure reminds me of an albatross at times.

  • @user-pt8og3ls5x
    @user-pt8og3ls5x Год назад +2

    I really hope one day human can build a plane which fly like an Albatrosses.

  • @tkafrica267
    @tkafrica267 7 месяцев назад

    Amazing

  • @Ferda1964
    @Ferda1964 10 месяцев назад

    The ultimate pinnacle of a drone design.

  • @callystarizka-tata7892
    @callystarizka-tata7892 2 года назад

    Wow! Another video

  • @adeagle-ce9mr
    @adeagle-ce9mr 2 года назад +1

    what exactly have the nostrils got to do with the flying now?

  • @UmarHamza
    @UmarHamza Год назад

    Talk about a perpetual motion machine 😂

  • @miguelangelmamani2033
    @miguelangelmamani2033 Год назад

    maravillosa ave y extraordinarias tomas i love.

  • @Spacey7
    @Spacey7 2 года назад +9

    So how do they take off again after they've landed in the water to grab it's food? Beautiful birds, got to be one of my favourites 💕

    • @biomutarist6832
      @biomutarist6832 2 года назад +4

      Good question, I think they would directly take off from the water. See how ducks take off when floating in a pond, kind of have to rev it up and even 'run' on the water surface a bit.

    • @Spacey7
      @Spacey7 2 года назад +3

      @@biomutarist6832 yes that's what thought they might do, but they said there's hardly any wind at the waters surface. Maybe they run along the surface gaining speed to take off like a swan does?

    • @dqblizzard722
      @dqblizzard722 Год назад

      Probably very strong winds at sea to help out too

    • @josephinebennington7247
      @josephinebennington7247 9 месяцев назад

      Turn head to wind, spread wings, wait for top of a swell, get some free lift immediately, and flap them wings to get airborne. Use your big flat feet too.

  • @ghianjamessigurado2870
    @ghianjamessigurado2870 Год назад

    So albatrosses are the jet liner of the animal kingdom

  • @memegrazer
    @memegrazer 2 года назад +1

    One day, we will have an aero dinamic plane that would fly with least fuel inspired by this beautiful bird.

  • @mimemouse997
    @mimemouse997 2 года назад

    Wow 😮 what an amazing Bird.

  • @ashokvarhadi4887
    @ashokvarhadi4887 2 года назад +1

    Very best video & best narration & information
    Thanks lot sir

  • @dracodracarys2339
    @dracodracarys2339 2 года назад +1

    imagine if birds flew by jet propulsion