Nothing but the wind governs where fulmars can live; they are addicts of wind, incapable of living without it, needing wind to animate their lives, and, like most of the albatrosses, prevented from living in the fluky Horse latitudes of the Tropics not from a shortage of prey but because the winds there could not sustain them. In the tropics they would have to flap and would die. High-latitude gales are fulmar life-blood.
