NG:Photo of the Day April 20, 2004

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Tiger Shark Attack, Hawaii, 1997

Photograph by William R. Curtsinger

"First flight is the last flight for one out of ten fledgling [albatrosses]. The unfortunate novice fliers are often the scrawniest ones or those that try to ride whispers of wind too weak to carry them over the danger zone."

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