I was informed by a fisherman that there were now hundreds of gannets in the channel off Plymouth, and that he had also met with some puffins (which he called popes)

[…] instead of rejoycing at this Prosperity of his Family, which a true Father of his Children would have esteem’d his own, a Spirit of Envy and Discontent seized him, and he went away chagrine and melancholy.

The senescence is enhanced by exovert pressures and believed to be programmed and controlled by genetic factor.

Pip pip! Let's get out there and knock the stuffing out of 'em!