Wandering Albatross Brain Replica

$26.00

The Snowy Albatross is one of the two largest members of the genus Diomedea. It has the greatest known wingspan of any living bird. Snowy Albatrosses are known to circumnavigate the Southern Ocean three times, covering more than 75,000 miles in one year.

Description

Wandering Albatross Brain Replica measures 2.5×1.6x.4 inches. The Wandering Albatross Brain replica is museum quality polyurethane cast made in USA. Our precise brain replica can be used as an museum brain exhibit, home décor brain or office décor brain.

The wandering albatross, Snowy albatross, White-winged albatross or Goonie (Diomedea exulans) is a large seabird from the family Diomedeidae, which has a circumpolar range in the Southern Ocean.

It was the last species of albatross to be described, and was long considered the same species as the Tristan albatross and the Antipodean albatross. A few authors still consider them all subspecies of the same species.

The Wandering albatross or Diomedea exulans is one of the two largest members of the genus Diomedea (the great albatrosses), being similar in size to the southern royal albatross. It is one of the largest, best known, and most studied species of bird in the world.

It has the greatest known wingspan of any living bird, and is also one of the most far-ranging birds. Some individual wandering albatrosses are known to circumnavigate the Southern Ocean three times, covering more than 75,000 miles, in one year.

As a result of its wingspan, it is capable of remaining in the air without flapping its wings for several hours at a time.

The length of the wandering albatross or Diomedea exulans body is about 3 ft. 6 in to 4 ft. 5 in. with females being slightly smaller than males. Adults can weigh from 13 to 28 lbs.

The adult wandering albatross or Diomedea exulans have white bodies with black and white wings. Males have whiter wings than females with just the tips and trailing edges of the wings black.

The wandering albatross is the whitest of the wandering albatross species complex, the other species having a great deal more brown and black on the wings and body as breeding adults, very closely resembling immature wandering albatrosses. The large bill is pink, as are the feet.

Wandering albatross or Diomedea exulans have a salt gland that is situated above the nasal passage and helps desalinate their bodies, due to the high amount of ocean water that they imbibe.

They excrete a high saline solution from their nose, which is a probable cause for the pink-yellow stain seen on some animal’s necks.

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Additional information

Weight 1.5 lbs
Dimensions 2.5 × 1.6 × .4 in
Wandering Albatross Facts

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Procellariiformes
Family: Diomedeidae
Genus: Diomedea
Species: D. exulans
Binomial name: Diomedea exulans