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Two mommy albotross nests discovered
Almost a third of Laysan albatross nests in the Oahu colony have two mommies.
That’s the surprise in Lindsay Young’s genetic analysis of breeding pairs on Oahu. Like many other birds, two Laysan albatross court and pair up to form a nest and share the work of feeding a chick. But the males and females look so much alike in this species that the sex of the nest tenders only became clear after genetic tests, Young and her colleagues say in an upcoming Biology Letters.
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