Daniel talks with Diane Ackerman about her new book, "Rarest of the Rare: Vanishing Animals, Timeless Worlds" (Random House), which is about her journey to a small island near Japan, an island called Torishima, which is home to the rare bird known as the short-tailed albatross. The albatross lives 40 to 60 years and has the capacity for fly for 4 or 5 years without landing (it does float on the water every so often)...it even can sleep while flying.
Copyright 1996 NPR
