Located off the southern tip of the Isle of Man in the Irish Sea, the Calf of Man has been a bird observatory since 1959.

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Residents tied the mother to a sea wall so the calf wouldn't leave its side.

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But in the repeated curve of her thigh and calf he saw shapes like sea shells, with the luminescence and faint muscular rays of the great chambered nautilus.

ECONOMIST: Charis Wilson