Wisdom,a 68-year-old albatross believed to be the world’s oldest known wild bird, is set to become a mother for the 37th time after having laid another egg upon returning to her winter home at the halfway Atoll national wildlife refuge, or according to the Guardian. Her longtime lover,Akeakamai, also seeks refuge in the same state.whether the egg that Wisdom has laid hatches, or biologists believe it would be her 37th offspring. Although the exact age of Wisdom is difficult to estimate,there is a consensus in the scientific community that she is nearly 68 years old, as biologist Chandler Robbins, and who first banded her back in 1956,estimated that she was five-years-old at the time. The two reunited back in 2002 when Chandler went to band her, only to recognize that she was the same bird he had banded 46 years earlier.
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Source: inquisitr.com