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title: "Female-female pairing in Laysan Albatrosses: a radio interview with Lindsay Young"
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# Female-female pairing in Laysan Albatrosses: a radio interview with Lindsay Young

Listen to a radio interview with ACAP News Correspondent, Lindsay Young of [Pacific Rim Conservation](http://www.pacificrimconservation.com/) on female-female pairing in [Near Threatened](http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/speciesfactsheet.php?id=3958)Laysan Albatrosses *Phoebastria immutabilis* in Hawaii ([click here](http://www.cbc.ca/video/news/audioplayer.html?clipid=2428171246)).

 ![](https://acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Albatrosses/L/Laysan/laysan albatross pair midway jacob gonzalez-solis.jpg)

 Laysan Albatrosses on Midway Atoll.  Photograph by Jacob Gonzalez-Solis

 [Click here](http://www.acap.aq/index.php/en/news/latest-news/1576-no-such-thing-as-a-completely-bad-relationship-same-sex-pairing-in-laysan-albatrosses-can-be-adaptive) to read of Lindsay’s latest research on same-sex pairing in albatrosses.

 A female-female pair of Short-tailed Albatrosses *P. albatrus* has been laying infertile eggs on Kure Atoll in recent years ([click here](http://www.acap.aq/index.php/en/news/news-archive/24-2011-news-archive/774-two-short-tailed-albatrosses-start-breeding-on-kure-atoll-hawaii-for-the-second-year-but-once-more-both-are-females)).

 **Reference:**

 Young, L.C. & VanderWerf, E.A. 2013.  Adaptive value of same-sex pairing in Laysan albatross.  [*Proceedings of the Royal Society Biological Sciences*  doi:10.1098/rspb.2013.2473.](http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/281/1775/20132473.full)

 *John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 6 January 2014*