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A fact from Abbott's booby appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 13 April 2012 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that if an Abbott's Booby (juvenile pictured) falls to the ground, it will starve unless it can catch the wind and take off again?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2012/April.

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Dodgy claims

There are a lot of dodgy statements in this article. A stand-out example: It says these birds live up to 40 years, and then says that 120 years spans three generations. This is nonsensical. Humans can live up to 100 years, and even longer, but we don't say that 300 years spans three human generations. In human populations, looking at the typical age difference of an individual and its grand-parent, thats about 40 to 60 years, not 300 years.Eregli bob (talk) 14:21, 16 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Weirdly, it's what is written in the source from the Australian Government....Casliber (talk · contribs) 20:49, 16 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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this to read and add later Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 02:19, 22 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]