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he doesn't fly very well and it's obvious that he nas sore

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to try to sneak up on him and see if we can catch him since

particular problem,

So wetil take a closér look at this one,

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i guess, as he should have been, for he was jooking away from

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Well, he was pointed the right way,

the blast and he had gotten his fail feathers singed and sor

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of the primary wing fins or feathers have been burned.

a rudder,

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He's

in about the same shape, the san@ problem as a ship without
So we'll put him down and go pack and go to the

30 we com back the next day and here are numbers
of dead birds on the beach.

Well now, the logical assumption,

I guess that one makes is that, well, these birds must have
died from radiation damage,
at least they were alive,

radiation damge.

They were all right yesterday,
So we assume that they died from

We have a look,

We examined them very

closely, We tried to measure this, measure that, do the best
autopsy we could and find little or no radiation or they are
too far away for any neutron flux.

So why did they die?

This

ia the question you have to answer,
In our report we would just write a simple thing,
would just say they died of radiation,
upon 2 little bit more background,
natural history of these beasts,

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Then we have to draw

We have to draw upon the
We have to realize that

there's no water on the island for them to drink,
no water on the island they don't drink it,

Ir there ts

They get their

moisture from their food, their food being the fish in the

sea,

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by getting the moisture from the sea they're able to maintain

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they can't maintain their moisture balance,

Well, the salinity of the fish in the sea is the sare

So they die of

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