Why Icelanders throw puffins off cliffs to save their lives

from Animal Airwaves · host Jennifer Lee

Something amazing happens in Iceland’s Westman Islands each summer. Baby puffins — or pufflings — are thrown from cliffs to save their lives. The Iceland population of Atlantic puffins is...

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