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SIR WILLIAM CORRY told me some time ago that on one of his steamships coming from New Zealand, an albatross, supposed to have been choked dead, kept in an ice box at a temperature which was always much below freezing point, was found to be alive at the end of fourteen days. He has been kind enough to obtain for me the following statement in writing from Captain Reed. Of course the birds mentioned in this statement could not really have been choked dead, but I think the facts are very interesting.
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PERRY, J. Tenacity of Life of the Albatross. Nature 62, 621 (1900). https://doi.org/10.1038/062621a0
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