Albatrosses are large, oceanic birds that are truly unique. They live at sea and return to land only to bear their young and feed the nesting bables. Albatrosses feed their bables by regurgitating food that they have caught and swallowed at sea and, in turn, stored in their stomachs
during the typically long flight back to land. Albatrosses can fly such long distances using a method of flying called "dynamic soaring."
A. Albatrosses can fly long distance
B. Albatrosses are amazing birds with several unique characteristics
C. Albatrosses regurgitate for for their young
D. Albatrosses are oceanic birds

onto a large boat, and mark the water level that the boat sinks to. then, take the elephant out and put a bunch of marked weights onto the boat until it reaches the same water level. add up the masses of the weights to get the weight of the elephant.

what passage are you referring to

boccaccio employs the voice of his narrator dioneo to represent his ideas on the tension between masculinity and femininity.  while dioneo excites the members of the brigata and recognizes women for their unique skills and independent ideas, he concludes the decameron with a story reminiscent of the society from which these young aristocrats escaped, revealing misogynistic overtones.  dioneo boccaccio is able to explore the gender disparity which is inherent in 14th century florentine society.