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Nature 408, 289 (16 November 2000) | doi:10.1038/35042630

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A burden undeserved

Far from being the encumbrance and sign of retribution portrayed in Samuel Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner, an albatross is a welcome and impressive sight — and one that Coleridge himself never experienced. The so-called shy albatross shown above belongs to this diverse grouping of seabirds, which inhabits the Antarctic and Pacific oceans.