As I spent my free time sitting with the albatross, I began to admire the pair bonds and dedication to their life-long mates. You can watch the courtship dances and guess how long certain pairs had been together and identify suspected new pairs all based on their coordinated dance. What I surmised was this: the more established pairs were well-coordinated and not easily distracted from the intricate movements of headshakes, sky moos, wing lifts, and bill snaps. These dances went on for hours. I posited that the newer pairs or younger birds were the ones that lost interest in their dance within minutes or were not coordinated at all — one bird doing a sky moo while the other a wing lift — not practiced and definitely out of sync.
From Albatross to Litmus Test: Gay Rights and the Democratic Party
In the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries, Democratic presidential candidates met to discuss LGBTQ rights at a CNN town forum, mostly enunciating unequivocal support…