Science and Technology Daily (intern reporter Zhang Jiaxin) More than 90% of birds are monogamous, and most of them are loyal to their partners
This time, in order to find out whether the environment has a direct impact on the "divorce rate" of albatross, the researchers analyzed the reproduction of 15,500 pairs of wild black-browed albatrosses living on the Frank Islands from 2004 to 2019
According to the researchers, in the years when the sea water temperature was high, the "divorce rate" of albatross in the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic increased from an average of less than 4% to nearly 8%
Francisco Ventura, a conservationist at the University of Lisbon in Portugal, puts forward two possible reasons: one is that the warming sea forces the birds to hunt longer and fly farther
Researchers believe that this result indicates that the "divorce rate" of albatross and other monogamous animals is higher due to climate change caused by human activities
Albatross can live for decades, sometimes spending years in the ocean searching for food, and then returning to land to reproduce
If reproduction is unsuccessful, many birds, mainly females, will leave their mates and look for a better "future" elsewhere
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